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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... insistence on mitigating the claims made by the past upon the present , as opposed to Faulkner's brilliant but static evocation of those claims as an endpoint , as the tragic core of his novels . One can trace the development of these ...
... insistence on mitigating the claims made by the past upon the present , as opposed to Faulkner's brilliant but static evocation of those claims as an endpoint , as the tragic core of his novels . One can trace the development of these ...
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... insistence on both financial and moral balance . My second chapter extends this discussion , arguing that the ledger rep- resents a form of written history , a narrative " account " that requires a final balance . In the reconstructions ...
... insistence on both financial and moral balance . My second chapter extends this discussion , arguing that the ledger rep- resents a form of written history , a narrative " account " that requires a final balance . In the reconstructions ...
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... insistence upon an unspeakable past that saturates the present , its ceaseless evocation of a history that will not be forgotten , the power of Morrison's is its suggestion that the unspeakable past which lurks around us cannot be ...
... insistence upon an unspeakable past that saturates the present , its ceaseless evocation of a history that will not be forgotten , the power of Morrison's is its suggestion that the unspeakable past which lurks around us cannot be ...
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