info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject Alternative Literary Histories : Toni Morrison's "A Mercy" and Colonial North America https://phaidrani.ni.ac.rs/o:2260 doi:10.46630/jkal.2022.21 cobiss:110128393 2022 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode Kocić Stanković, Ana eng OSNO - Opšta sistematizacija naučnih oblasti, Američka književnost OSNO - Opšta sistematizacija naučnih oblasti, Američka književnost American literature, alternative history, Toni Morrison, rememory, colonial America, historical fiction. application/pdfstr. 309-319 411770 bytes Jezik, književnost, alternative / Language, Literature, Alternatives : književna istraživanja : zbornik radova, Filozofski fakultet u Nišu, 2022, str. 309-319 The paper offers a reading of Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy as an alternative history of colonial North America focused on empowering the powerless and giving a voice to those silenced and overlooked in mainstream histories. The theoretical framework is based on Hayden White’s idea of history as inevitably imbued with fictionalized elements, Homi Bhabha’s interpretation and Morrison’s idea of ‘rememory’ and the black feminist idea of acquiring one’s own voice by becoming the speaking subject. The main thesis is that Morrison’s book offers an alternative version of early American history by giving voices to the representatives of various minority groups from the colonial period of North America: white immigrant, African American, mixed-race and Native American women and indentured servants. Using multiple narrators, Morrison not only manages to complement ‘official’ history books but also to use individual narrat Filozofski fakultet u Nišu