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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... race in America have been figured through concepts such as debt and repayment , exchange and accounting , property ... racial politics of the twentieth century . In focusing on the history of slavery , I have 1 Introduction Balancing the ...
... race in America have been figured through concepts such as debt and repayment , exchange and accounting , property ... racial politics of the twentieth century . In focusing on the history of slavery , I have 1 Introduction Balancing the ...
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... issues of race , gender , class , and nationhood 6 ( and there is an emerging body of work on gay or lesbian themes and possibilities in his work ) . This reinvention of " Faulkner " is certainly being done Introduction 3.
... issues of race , gender , class , and nationhood 6 ( and there is an emerging body of work on gay or lesbian themes and possibilities in his work ) . This reinvention of " Faulkner " is certainly being done Introduction 3.
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... race and gender that it's easy to think of her as writing to keep up with a trend . Since 1989 , two years after Beloved , her work has been the subject , in whole or in part , of nearly a hundred doctoral disserta- tions . But in fact ...
... race and gender that it's easy to think of her as writing to keep up with a trend . Since 1989 , two years after Beloved , her work has been the subject , in whole or in part , of nearly a hundred doctoral disserta- tions . But in fact ...
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... race , gender , and class as powerfully determining forces in the construction of individual subjec- tivity , the unflagging attempt to understand slavery and its legacies in twentieth - century America.11 Each of my chapters examines a ...
... race , gender , and class as powerfully determining forces in the construction of individual subjec- tivity , the unflagging attempt to understand slavery and its legacies in twentieth - century America.11 Each of my chapters examines a ...
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... race is crucial in any attempt at a moral un- derstanding of the American past . My first chapter is concerned with accounting , and in particular with the way that double - entry bookkeeping and its cornerstone , the ledger , cre- ate ...
... race is crucial in any attempt at a moral un- derstanding of the American past . My first chapter is concerned with accounting , and in particular with the way that double - entry bookkeeping and its cornerstone , the ledger , cre- ate ...
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