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Re-centering the History of the Americas: Toni Morrison’s Beloved and A Mercy
Working Papers in American Studies. Vol. 4. Transformation: Nature and Economy in Modern English and American Culture, 4 (2020); 91-120. https://doi.org/10.17234/WPAS.2020.5
Šesnić, Jelena

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Šesnić, J. (2020). Re-centering the History of the Americas: Toni Morrison’s Beloved and A Mercy. Working Papers in American Studies. Vol. 4. Transformation: Nature and Economy in Modern English and American Culture, 4., 91-120. doi: 10.17234/WPAS.2020.5

Šesnić, Jelena. "Re-centering the History of the Americas: Toni Morrison’s Beloved and A Mercy." Working Papers in American Studies. Vol. 4. Transformation: Nature and Economy in Modern English and American Culture, vol. 4, 2020, pp. 91-120. https://doi.org/10.17234/WPAS.2020.5

Šesnić, Jelena. "Re-centering the History of the Americas: Toni Morrison’s Beloved and A Mercy." Working Papers in American Studies. Vol. 4. Transformation: Nature and Economy in Modern English and American Culture 4 (2020): 91-120. https://doi.org/10.17234/WPAS.2020.5

Šesnić, J. (2020) 'Re-centering the History of the Americas: Toni Morrison’s Beloved and A Mercy', Working Papers in American Studies. Vol. 4. Transformation: Nature and Economy in Modern English and American Culture, 4, pp. 91-120. doi: 10.17234/WPAS.2020.5

Šesnić J. Re-centering the History of the Americas: Toni Morrison’s Beloved and A Mercy. Working Papers in American Studies. Vol. 4. Transformation: Nature and Economy in Modern English and American Culture [Internet]. 2020 [cited 2024 November 25];4:91-120. doi: 10.17234/WPAS.2020.5

J. Šesnić, "Re-centering the History of the Americas: Toni Morrison’s Beloved and A Mercy", Working Papers in American Studies. Vol. 4. Transformation: Nature and Economy in Modern English and American Culture, vol. 4, pp. 91-120, 2020. [Online]. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:895488. [Accessed: 25 November 2024]

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Title (english)Re-centering the History of the Americas: Toni Morrison’s Beloved and A Mercy
AuthorJelena Šesnić
Author's institutionUniversity of Zagreb
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English language and literature)
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies
Abstract (english)
This article discusses the status of Toni Morrison as an American writer who consistently foregrounded African American history and experience and acted during her long career as a public intellectual. Morrison’s writerly agenda has been to delve into the epistemological origin of constructions such as race and blackness, placed in the context of their historical manifestation, such as transatlantic slavery as manifested in Morrison’s two most striking historical novels, Beloved (1987) and A Mercy (2008). Writing slavery, as a way to re-write the United States’ history and probe its dark spaces, places Morrison’s texts in a long line of nineteenth-century slave narratives, and in particular their twentieth-century avatar, the neo-slave novel, which strives to historicize slavery from the sufferer’s perspective. In the process, Morrison creates a “resistant text” (Sommer) requiring the reader’s imaginative and ethical engagement and refusing to fill in all the gaps. That the haunting of slavery still requires imaginative, historical, and ethical engagement, like the one accorded it by Morrison, is a fact of U.S. American social life to the present day.
Keywords (english)
Languageenglish
Publication typeScientific paper - Other
Publication statusPublished
Peer reviewPeer review - international
Publication versionPublished version
Journal titleWorking Papers in American Studies. Vol. 4. Transformation: Nature and Economy in Modern English and American Culture
Numberingvol. 4, pp. 91-120
e-ISSN1849-6180
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.17234/WPAS.2020.5
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:131:895488
Publication2020
ConferenceTitle: Transformation: Nature and Economy in Modern English and American Culture
Location: Zagreb, Croatia
Organizer: Hrvatsko udruženje za američke studije, Hrvatsko društvo za anglističke studije
Start date: 2019-09-24
End date: 2019-09-24
Document URLhttp://www.huams.hr/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/wpas_v4_huams_2020.pdf
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