They Hatch Alone: The Alienation of the Colonial American Subject in Toni Morrison's A Mercy

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" They Hatch Alone: The Alienation of the Colonial American Subject in Toni Morrison's A Mercy "
Jimenez, Teresa G

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	925876
Doc. No	:	LA0ds156cw
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Jimenez, Teresa G
Title & Author	:	They Hatch Alone: The Alienation of the Colonial American Subject in Toni Morrison's A Mercy [Article]\ Jimenez, Teresa G
Title of Periodical	:	Berkeley Undergraduate Journal
Volume/ Issue Number	:	22/2
Date	:	2010
Abstract	:	This essay examines the trope of “motherlessness” as a metaphor for the natal alienation experienced by the diaspora who populated colonial America. I closely read the five main characters in A Mercy—Florens, Jacob, Lina, Rebekka, and Sorrow—to show how their behavioral responses to “motherlessness” compound their alienation as seventeenth century American subjects.