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. |
À l'intérieur du livre
Résultats 1-5 sur 31
Page 2
... critical essays on Morrison , both Harold Bloom and Henry Louis Gates , Jr. , have claimed Faulkner as the central " influence " or " ancestor " to which her work can be connected . In January of 1998 , even Time magazine got into the ...
... critical essays on Morrison , both Harold Bloom and Henry Louis Gates , Jr. , have claimed Faulkner as the central " influence " or " ancestor " to which her work can be connected . In January of 1998 , even Time magazine got into the ...
Page 4
... critical moment has its own dangers . In his 1991 essay " Doe Hunting and Masculinity : Song of Solomon and Go Down , Moses , " Duvall proposes an alternative to the ideology of literary influence : to speak of the way a text of Toni ...
... critical moment has its own dangers . In his 1991 essay " Doe Hunting and Masculinity : Song of Solomon and Go Down , Moses , " Duvall proposes an alternative to the ideology of literary influence : to speak of the way a text of Toni ...
Page 5
... critical idiom as well as the interview format have made it easy to ac- cept her interpretations as gospel . A good example is Morrison's 1989 essay " Unspeakahle Things Unspoken : The Afro - American Presence in American Literature ...
... critical idiom as well as the interview format have made it easy to ac- cept her interpretations as gospel . A good example is Morrison's 1989 essay " Unspeakahle Things Unspoken : The Afro - American Presence in American Literature ...
Page 6
... critically , it must be said that those of us who pur- sue this work do so with the firm belief that there is much to be gained from this pairing . The best of the work currently being done provides strat- egies for reading the two ...
... critically , it must be said that those of us who pur- sue this work do so with the firm belief that there is much to be gained from this pairing . The best of the work currently being done provides strat- egies for reading the two ...
Page 9
... critical contexts . In addition to the small but growing body of work that pairs Faulkner and Morrison , I draw upon the arguments , in- sights , and pieties of the critical bodies of work surrounding each author , as well as ...
... critical contexts . In addition to the small but growing body of work that pairs Faulkner and Morrison , I draw upon the arguments , in- sights , and pieties of the critical bodies of work surrounding each author , as well as ...
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Balancing the Books: Faulkner, Morrison and the Economies of Slavery Erik Dussere Aperçu limité - 2013 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
Absalom accounting action African American American appears argues assertion attempt Baby balance Bear becomes begins Beloved blood body called central chapter characters Charles claim clear concerns connection construction create critical culture danger dead debt defined described discussion economic essay exchange experience fact father Faulkner female fiction figure final force Gavin gender give honor human identity imagine insists interest issues kind land language ledger linked literary lives look Lucas male mark meaning memory Morrison move narrative narrator never novels objects past possible present problem provides question race racial reading relation relationship represented seems seen sexuality slave slavery social South Southern story structure suggests takes telling themes things thinking throughout tion town tradition trying turn ultimately woman women writing written