Balancing the Books: Faulkner, Morrison and the Economies of SlaveryRoutledge, 24 mai 2013 - 172 pages Balancing the Books represents a sophisticated examination of the ongoing engagement of American literature with the economies of slavery through the works of William Faulkner and Toni Morrison. Both Faulkner and Morrison write about the relationship between race, identity, and history, and about how the legacies of slavery linger in the lives and actions of their characters, although the narrative strategies through which they render these themes ultimately diverge. Dussere brings considerations of debt and repayment, exchange and accounting, and capital and the market-concepts inseparable from any consideration of race in the construction of the American nation-into dialogue with the work of Faulkner and Morrison to produce an outstanding work of literary and cultural criticism. |
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... Characters - African Americans . 2. Literature and society - Southern States - History - 20th century . 3. Faulkner , William , 1897-1962— Characters - Slaves . 4. Morrison , Toni - Characters - Slaves . 5. Southern States - In litera ...
... Characters - African Americans . 2. Literature and society - Southern States - History - 20th century . 3. Faulkner , William , 1897-1962— Characters - Slaves . 4. Morrison , Toni - Characters - Slaves . 5. Southern States - In litera ...
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... characters in these novels , we never grasp in their wholeness , in their subtlety , the historical forces we inherit and by which we are often led ; we are never sure what contracts were signed , what debts incurred , be- fore we ...
... characters in these novels , we never grasp in their wholeness , in their subtlety , the historical forces we inherit and by which we are often led ; we are never sure what contracts were signed , what debts incurred , be- fore we ...
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... characters involved are dehumanized for Quentin , and because he feels no compassion for them , the story has no human value to him , for it has become the tale not of people suffering and needing pity , but of values and abstract ideas ...
... characters involved are dehumanized for Quentin , and because he feels no compassion for them , the story has no human value to him , for it has become the tale not of people suffering and needing pity , but of values and abstract ideas ...
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... characters moving toward some semblance of a fu- ture even as the past maintains a vigilant , potentially threatful presence . And Paradise continues this trend in its ultimate evocation of a community emerging from crisis into the ...
... characters moving toward some semblance of a fu- ture even as the past maintains a vigilant , potentially threatful presence . And Paradise continues this trend in its ultimate evocation of a community emerging from crisis into the ...
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... character , to captivate it in a fictional scheme whose outcome is already inscribed by a higher , different , other , power , freezes it in the ahistorical . The collective and individual reinvention of the discourse of " slavery " is ...
... character , to captivate it in a fictional scheme whose outcome is already inscribed by a higher , different , other , power , freezes it in the ahistorical . The collective and individual reinvention of the discourse of " slavery " is ...
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