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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"A Mercy"”.
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Seeking Freedom through Self-Love in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Beloved
… years after the publication of Beloved with A Mercy in 2008. With these two texts, Morrison offers her readers one story that shows the descent into slavery and one that shows progression towards freedom. The purpose of this thesis is to place Morrison’s two neo-slave narratives, Beloved and A …
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"To liberate ourselves and each other" : reading the female community in the fiction of Sylvia Plath, Mary McCarthy, and Toni Morrison.
… two novels by Toni Morrison: Beloved and A Mercy, and it explores the coexistence of fragility and power within the female communities Morrison depicts. The conclusion to this project reflects on the implications of reading the two chapters together and offers paths forward for scholarship …
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Identity as ethical responsibility: A manifesto for social change in Toni Morrison's fiction
… (1970), Tar Baby (1981), Paradise (1997), and A Mercy (2008). Through her fiction Morrison can be argued to construct identity in a fashion similar to the philosophies of Bakhtin and Levinas, which present the subject’s identity as an ethical responsibility for the other/Other. Morrison’s …
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Essays on Dynamic Tournaments
… other half investigates the impact of the use of mercy rule in a dynamic tournament on the economic output and other system wide characteristics. </p><p>In Chapter 2, we study dynamic tournaments in which time is modeled explicitly, as opposed to with the abstract notion of ``periods.'' By doing …
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If We Could Learn to Learn from Pain: A Contemporary Literary Ethics of Women's Suffering and Self-Sacrifice
… Toni Morrison's novels Beloved, Love, and A Mercy together with the Black Liberation theology of redemptive suffering and womanist theologians' challenges to Black theology in light of gender. Here I assert that Morrison's texts perform a paradox in suggesting an ethical model of self-giving …
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Recalling trauma: the legacy of slavery and colonialism in contemporary black women’s fiction
This thesis examines key literary representations of black women’s historical trauma linked to colonialism and slavery. Through comparative readings of contemporary fiction by black women writers from two continents, I explore the intimate links between the historical traumas of colonialism and …