Seeking Freedom through Self-Love in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Beloved

Toni Morrison chose to revisit the neo-slave narrative genre twenty-five 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 th...

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Main Author: Walker, Stephanie
Format: Others
Published: VCU Scholars Compass 2012
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Online Access:http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/417
http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1416&context=etd