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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... concerns differently . If it is necessary to acknowledge that Faulkner came first and thus initiates a certain array of possible discussions , it is also necessary to see how Morrison , from her historical vantage point , implic- itly ...
... concerns differently . If it is necessary to acknowledge that Faulkner came first and thus initiates a certain array of possible discussions , it is also necessary to see how Morrison , from her historical vantage point , implic- itly ...
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... concerns of her novels ( the first of which was written fifteen years after the MA thesis ) . Her work struggles incessantly , and has never stopped struggling , with the problems of characters in the present who are disconnected from ...
... concerns of her novels ( the first of which was written fifteen years after the MA thesis ) . Her work struggles incessantly , and has never stopped struggling , with the problems of characters in the present who are disconnected from ...
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... concerns of his white characters , failing to envision the entry of blacks into freedom and the larger economy at all . Morrison , too , is concerned with the dilemma facing blacks in the wake of slavery , for whom freedom means coping ...
... concerns of his white characters , failing to envision the entry of blacks into freedom and the larger economy at all . Morrison , too , is concerned with the dilemma facing blacks in the wake of slavery , for whom freedom means coping ...
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... concerns and accounting techniques is im- plicit within the word " account " itself . Signifying in a whole variety of reg- isters from the purely descriptive to the divine and moralistic , the account is , above all , a discursive act ...
... concerns and accounting techniques is im- plicit within the word " account " itself . Signifying in a whole variety of reg- isters from the purely descriptive to the divine and moralistic , the account is , above all , a discursive act ...
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