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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... Life ? " : The Debts of History Intruder in the Dust ; Song of Solomon ; Tar Baby 63 Chapter Four Figures in Blood : Closed Communities and Free Markets Paradise ; Light in August ; Jazz Notes Bibliography Index 97 129 151 159 vii.
... Life ? " : The Debts of History Intruder in the Dust ; Song of Solomon ; Tar Baby 63 Chapter Four Figures in Blood : Closed Communities and Free Markets Paradise ; Light in August ; Jazz Notes Bibliography Index 97 129 151 159 vii.
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... debt and repayment , exchange and accounting , property and the market . I will suggest that Morrison and Faulkner employ and interrogate these figures throughout their work in order to return anew to the history of slavery and through ...
... debt and repayment , exchange and accounting , property and the market . I will suggest that Morrison and Faulkner employ and interrogate these figures throughout their work in order to return anew to the history of slavery and through ...
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... debt I owe , then , is to these two writers , whose books have helped to shape my ongoing desire and will to ... debts incurred , be- fore we arrived . Writing of his research into his family's slaveowning past , Edward Ball explains ...
... debt I owe , then , is to these two writers , whose books have helped to shape my ongoing desire and will to ... debts incurred , be- fore we arrived . Writing of his research into his family's slaveowning past , Edward Ball explains ...
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... debt is inev- itable and that white and black Americans will encounter that debt at every turn , thwarting our plans and attempts to build a future in a nation where the earth itself is tainted by our past . The middle novels Song of ...
... debt is inev- itable and that white and black Americans will encounter that debt at every turn , thwarting our plans and attempts to build a future in a nation where the earth itself is tainted by our past . The middle novels Song of ...
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... debt is central to cultural institutions such as Southern honor— bastion of the antebellum patriarchy — or affirmative action ; how the ideol- ogy of racialized blood depends upon gendered notions of property . In short , I am placing ...
... debt is central to cultural institutions such as Southern honor— bastion of the antebellum patriarchy — or affirmative action ; how the ideol- ogy of racialized blood depends upon gendered notions of property . In short , I am placing ...
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