Naturalized Women: Ecofeminism in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy
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Toni Morrison’s A Mercy (2008) describes Jacob Vaark, an early settler from England, and his grand house that symbolizes the American Dream in the 1680s. The source of his success is colonialism and slavery, as revealed by four female characters—a white Englishwoman Rebekka and three non-white women Florens, Sorrow, and Lina. Analyzing how the novel compares the women’s experiences with nature and natural objects, this paper draws on ecofeminism as a theoretical frame of analysis to examine the novel’s hitherto overlooked representations of naturalized women and feminized nature. The paper analyzes how the novel represents oppressions and exploitations of the four women in relation to nature that is similarly appropriated and developed by European men. The paper maintains that the novel does not represent these “naturalized” women as powerless and passive but portrays them as growing characters who resist patriarchy, colonialism, and capitalism.
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Toni Morrison’s A Mercy (2008) describes Jacob Vaark, an early settler from England, and his grand house that symbolizes the American Dream in the 1680s. The source of his success is colonialism and slavery, as revealed by four female characters—a white Englishwoman Rebekka and three non-white women Florens, Sorrow, and Lina. Analyzing how the novel compares the women’s experiences with nature and natural objects, this paper draws on ecofeminism as a theoretical frame of analysis to examine the novel’s hitherto overlooked representations of naturalized women and feminized nature. The paper analyzes how the novel represents oppressions and exploitations of the four women in relation to nature that is similarly appropriated and developed by European men. The paper maintains that the novel does not represent these “naturalized” women as powerless and passive but portrays them as growing characters who resist patriarchy, colonialism, and capitalism.
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