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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... kind of instant classic within the critical canon . The cultural capital represented in Morrison's texts is problematic for Faulkner / Morrison studies , although it is also certainly part of the reason for those studies in the first ...
... kind of instant classic within the critical canon . The cultural capital represented in Morrison's texts is problematic for Faulkner / Morrison studies , although it is also certainly part of the reason for those studies in the first ...
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... is central to both of their respective approaches to slavery : the problem of what the present owes to the past . In the third chapter I examine both writers ' tech- niques for conceptualizing history as a kind of debt . Introduction 11.
... is central to both of their respective approaches to slavery : the problem of what the present owes to the past . In the third chapter I examine both writers ' tech- niques for conceptualizing history as a kind of debt . Introduction 11.
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... kind of debt . Through an extended reading of Intruder in the Dust , I argue that when Faulkner writes of slav- ery as a debt owed by white Southerners , it is not a monetary debt but a " debt of honor " on the model of the debts that ...
... kind of debt . Through an extended reading of Intruder in the Dust , I argue that when Faulkner writes of slav- ery as a debt owed by white Southerners , it is not a monetary debt but a " debt of honor " on the model of the debts that ...
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