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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.
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