Workshop 4: Property – Belonging – Autonomy: Economies in (Neo-) Slave Narratives and Fictions of Slavery
Chairs: Christa Buschendorf / Stephanie Müller (Frankfurt)
- Catrin Gersdorf (FU Berlin): The Cool and the Calm: Emotional Modernity and the Economy of Slavery in Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass
- Laura Bieger (FU Berlin): The Known Worlds of Place, Community and Property: Economies of Belonging in Edward P. Jones
- Heike Schäfer (Mannheim): Sounding the Psychological Costs of Enslavement and Autonomy: Toni Morrison’s Use of Polyphonic Narration in A Mercy
- Stefanie Müller (Frankfurt): The Logic of Property in Toni Morrison's A Mercy