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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... study dealing with a white male author of the past — a writer considered " great " —and a contemporary black female writer , one inevitably runs the risk of writing a narrative of influence , of implying 2 Balancing the Books.
... study dealing with a white male author of the past — a writer considered " great " —and a contemporary black female writer , one inevitably runs the risk of writing a narrative of influence , of implying 2 Balancing the Books.
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... male's seminal text , that of the African - American woman would never have come to fruition ? But in positing an intertextual relation between [ Morrison and Faulkner ] , I am not granting the latter any privilege as master text . The ...
... male's seminal text , that of the African - American woman would never have come to fruition ? But in positing an intertextual relation between [ Morrison and Faulkner ] , I am not granting the latter any privilege as master text . The ...
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... the issues and possibilities facing these communities . Both novels ar- ticulate these concerns without offering an answer — both end with their male protagonists on the move , at radically indeterminate textual Introduction 7.
... the issues and possibilities facing these communities . Both novels ar- ticulate these concerns without offering an answer — both end with their male protagonists on the move , at radically indeterminate textual Introduction 7.
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... 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 surroundings and histories is of course ...
... 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 surroundings and histories is of course ...
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... male characters who achieve economic success . To see how each writer deals with the problem that has been articulated in terms of debt and property , my final chapter extends the analysis through a discussion of miscegenation and blood ...
... male characters who achieve economic success . To see how each writer deals with the problem that has been articulated in terms of debt and property , my final chapter extends the analysis through a discussion of miscegenation and blood ...
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