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Patriarchy In Lisa M Morrison's A Mercy

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The voice of marginalized women belonging to the so-called inferior race rings persuasively in the novel, A Mercy. Lisa M. Logan is attentive to this aspect of the novel. She is keenly interested in examining this aspect of the novel. Logan's view is cited in the following extract: Morrison’s novel operates as an evocative object, bridging the historical facts of patriarchy with the emotional resonance of non-elite, marginalized women’s experiences. The stories of Florens, Lina, and Rebekka show that early America was especially dangerous, tenuous, and brutal for women and girls. Morrison deepens our emotional understanding of those marginalized women who appear in history only incidentally, as a line in a ship’s log, a slaveholder’s inventory,
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