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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... fact , they both assert this influence as something self - evident — Bloom ends by simply quoting passages from three of Morrison's novels , inviting us to hear the echo of Faulkner . Since Bloom is perhaps best known for his fa- mous ...
... fact , they both assert this influence as something self - evident — Bloom ends by simply quoting passages from three of Morrison's novels , inviting us to hear the echo of Faulkner . Since Bloom is perhaps best known for his fa- mous ...
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... fact it is the trend that has caught up with her . She is one of the creators of the taste by which she is appreciated . That people think of ' the African - American female experience ' as a meaningful category in fic- tion or , for ...
... fact it is the trend that has caught up with her . She is one of the creators of the taste by which she is appreciated . That people think of ' the African - American female experience ' as a meaningful category in fic- tion or , for ...
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... fact it makes Morrison dangerously avail- able for appropriation . If it is difficult for us to write at a critical distance from Morrison , it is comparatively easy ( for most of us ) to do so with Faulkner . By bringing the issues ...
... fact it makes Morrison dangerously avail- able for appropriation . If it is difficult for us to write at a critical distance from Morrison , it is comparatively easy ( for most of us ) to do so with Faulkner . By bringing the issues ...
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... fact that Faulkner is white and male , Morrison black and female , each ap- proaches the subject of nineteenth - century American slavery from a differ- ent twentieth - century perspective . The shaping of individuals by their ...
... fact that Faulkner is white and male , Morrison black and female , each ap- proaches the subject of nineteenth - century American slavery from a differ- ent twentieth - century perspective . The shaping of individuals by their ...
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... fact or mystery at the book's core . To pair them is automatically to foreground certain thematic similarities as ... facts — for investigation . For each of these groupings , I show how the two writers respond formally and thematically ...
... fact or mystery at the book's core . To pair them is automatically to foreground certain thematic similarities as ... facts — for investigation . For each of these groupings , I show how the two writers respond formally and thematically ...
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