A Mercy

A Mercy Sources and ClassicNote Author

  • Morrison, Toni. A Mercy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
  • Moore, Geneva Cobb. “A Demonic Parody: Toni Morrison’s ‘A Mercy.’” The Southern Literary Journal, vol. 44, no. 1, 2011, pp. 1–18.
  • Putnam, Amanda. “Mothering Violence: Ferocious Female Resistance in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, and A Mercy.” Black Women, Gender + Families, vol. 5, no. 2, 2011, pp. 25–43.
  • Roye, Susmita. “TONI MORRISON’S DISRUPTED GIRLS AND THEIR DISTURBED GIRLHOODS: ‘The Bluest Eye’ and ‘A Mercy.’” Callaloo, vol. 35, no. 1, 2012, pp. 212–27.
  • Nehl, Markus. “From Human Bondage to Racial Slavery: Toni Morrison’s A Mercy (2008).” Transnational Black Dialogues: Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First Century, by Nehl, Transcript Verlag, 2016, pp. 55–78.
  • Sandy Alexandre. “Lovesick in the Time of Smallpox: Romancing the State of Nature in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy.” Criticism, vol. 59, no. 2, 2017, pp. 223–46.
  • Babb, Valerie. “‘E Pluribus Unum?’ The American Origins Narrative in Toni Morrison’s ‘A Mercy.’” MELUS, vol. 36, no. 2, 2011, pp. 147–64.
  • Roynon, Tessa. “Her Dark Materials: John Milton, Toni Morrison, and Concepts of ‘Dominion’ in ‘A Mercy.’” African American Review, vol. 44, no. 4, 2011, pp. 593–606.
  • Montgomery, Maxine L. “Got on My Traveling Shoes: Migration, Exile, and Home in Toni Morrison’s ‘A Mercy.’” Journal of Black Studies, vol. 42, no. 4, 2011, pp. 627–37.
  • Wyatt, Jean. “FAILED MESSAGES, MATERNAL LOSS, AND NARRATIVE FORM IN TONI MORRISON’S ‘A MERCY.’” Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 58, no. 1, 2012, pp. 128–51.
  • CURTIS, SUSAN. “History, Fiction, Imagination, and ‘A Mercy.’” Early American Literature, vol. 48, no. 1, 2013, pp. 188–93.
  • TERRY, JENNIFER. “‘Breathing the Air of a World So New’: Rewriting the Landscape of America in Toni Morrison’s ‘A Mercy.’” Journal of American Studies, vol. 48, no. 1, 2014, pp. 127–45.
  • CILLERAI, CHIARA. “‘One Question Is Who Is Responsible? Another Is Can You Read?’ Reading and Responding to Seventeenth-Century Texts Using Toni Morrison’s Historical Reconstructions in ‘A Mercy.’” Early American Literature, vol. 48, no. 1, 2013, pp. 178–83.
  • Emerson, Cheryl A. “‘My Skin Is Black upon Me’: Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and the Question of a Female Job.” South Atlantic Review, vol. 82, no. 2, 2017, pp. 12–23.
  • "Toni Morrison on Human Bondage and a Post-Racial Age." NPR. 8/31/22. <https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98679703>.
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