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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... live in a cultural moment at which Morrison's novels are ubiquitous and influen- tial . Her novels — along with her essays , interviews , and appearances on television , radio , and the Internet — have made the frustrations and tri ...
... live in a cultural moment at which Morrison's novels are ubiquitous and influen- tial . Her novels — along with her essays , interviews , and appearances on television , radio , and the Internet — have made the frustrations and tri ...
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... lives of her Northern black characters , revisits the Faulknerian tragedy in several different registers throughout her career . We might say that as a writer , Morrison is also a remarkable reader . She is not deliber- ately rewriting ...
... lives of her Northern black characters , revisits the Faulknerian tragedy in several different registers throughout her career . We might say that as a writer , Morrison is also a remarkable reader . She is not deliber- ately rewriting ...
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... lives are given form by very different sets of circumstances . Faulkner's writing of slavery is shaped by a segregated South contemplat- ing desegregation as a horror , a South in the process of mythifying itself and its history ; by ...
... lives are given form by very different sets of circumstances . Faulkner's writing of slavery is shaped by a segregated South contemplat- ing desegregation as a horror , a South in the process of mythifying itself and its history ; by ...
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... lives of the slaves are recorded alongside information about live- stock , crops , and farming equipment . Although this narrative reduces the slaves to their monetary value , it also provides written historical documen- tation of their ...
... lives of the slaves are recorded alongside information about live- stock , crops , and farming equipment . Although this narrative reduces the slaves to their monetary value , it also provides written historical documen- tation of their ...
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... live in , the type of social reality we inhabit . . . the way in which we administer the lives of others and ourselves . Peter Miller Surely economics , conceived in terms of an ideology of narrative form ... has much to contribute to ...
... live in , the type of social reality we inhabit . . . the way in which we administer the lives of others and ourselves . Peter Miller Surely economics , conceived in terms of an ideology of narrative form ... has much to contribute to ...
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