"Yonder they do not love your flesh." Community in Toni Morrison's Beloved
The Limitations of Citizenship and Property in the American Public Sphere
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895800 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dara N Byrne (corresponding author), Dara Byrne (0000-0001-9176-0635) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 25-60 |
| Publication date | 1999-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-029-02-02 |
| OpenAlex | W2061212470 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
Americans' fear of being outcast, of failing, of powerlessness; their fear of boundarylessness, of Nature unbridled and crouched for attack; their fear of the absence of so-called civilization; their fear of loneliness, of aggression both external and internal. In short, the terror of human freedom—the thing they coveted most of all. (Morrison 1992, 37) Beloved (1987), Toni Morrison's Reconstruction-era slave narrative, locates freedom in the autonomous act of death, which transforms the impetus of the nineteenth-century American public sphere, the slave population, by perma- nently nullifying potential capital gains from the slave's production output. By exercising sovereignty of self and revoking the imposition of Western economic classifications on the body, death enables the slave to shift the lo- cus of power away from the master
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Capital (architecture · Citizenship · Civilization · Literature · Loneliness · Narrative · Political science · Population · Power (physics · Property (philosophy · Public sphere · Sociology · Sovereignty · American Literature and Culture · Demography · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |