57. DEPICTING SLAVERY AND SOCIAL DIFFERENCES IN TONI MORRISON'S A MERCY         Auteur: ADOUPO ACHO Patrice

This study analyzes two essential motifs which are slavery and social differences and how they are interrelated in Toni Morrison's novel «A Mercy» (2008)».» Through an insightful analysis, the main objective of this paper highlights the depiction of slavery and social differences through characters' experiences, narrative structure, and symbolism. To achieve this, the paper turns around two main questions which focus on how Morrison represents slavery not only as a physical condition, but as a psychological and social structure, and how race, class, and gender construct a difference between the characters. The answer to these questions leads us to organize this paper into three parts including slavery as a system of domination; the psychological and emotional dimension of enslavement and social differences due to slavery, in the lens of sociocriticism.