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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... possible intervention that is forever receding . In these acts of reading and writing about Morrison and Faulkner , I have tried to remain faithful both to the ef- fect these books have had on my own thinking and to their political ...
... possible intervention that is forever receding . In these acts of reading and writing about Morrison and Faulkner , I have tried to remain faithful both to the ef- fect these books have had on my own thinking and to their political ...
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... possible to avoid them . So my title , Balancing the Books , refers not only to my focus on economic themes and figures but also to the nego- tiations involved in writing about these two authors , these two sets of books , together ...
... possible to avoid them . So my title , Balancing the Books , refers not only to my focus on economic themes and figures but also to the nego- tiations involved in writing about these two authors , these two sets of books , together ...
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... possible at that particular moment of the present . This approach to the past is necessary , Spillers suggests , in order to articu- late the complexity of our possible access to the history of slavery . She ar- gues that slavery , as ...
... possible at that particular moment of the present . This approach to the past is necessary , Spillers suggests , in order to articu- late the complexity of our possible access to the history of slavery . She ar- gues that slavery , as ...
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... possible way of responding to the logic of the ledger , with its 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 ...
... possible way of responding to the logic of the ledger , with its 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 ...
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... possible to provide a critique of ( Northern ) capitalism without recourse to a nostalgic return to ( Southern ) community ? Faulkner's response is to reject both pos- sibilities as untenable — a rejection visible in his characters ...
... possible to provide a critique of ( Northern ) capitalism without recourse to a nostalgic return to ( Southern ) community ? Faulkner's response is to reject both pos- sibilities as untenable — a rejection visible in his characters ...
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