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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... relationship . One must confront the politics of literary canonization with a clear sense of the different sorts of " cultural capital " that each writer's work bears.4 In conducting a study dealing with a white male author of the past ...
... relationship . One must confront the politics of literary canonization with a clear sense of the different sorts of " cultural capital " that each writer's work bears.4 In conducting a study dealing with a white male author of the past ...
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... relationship with codes of white Southern manhood . Morrison's visions are shaped by witnessing as an adult the abolition of Jim Crow , the advent of Civil Rights and the movements associated with second - wave feminism ; by growing up ...
... relationship with codes of white Southern manhood . Morrison's visions are shaped by witnessing as an adult the abolition of Jim Crow , the advent of Civil Rights and the movements associated with second - wave feminism ; by growing up ...
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... relationship between literary form and cultural history , my technique throughout is to open up a series of tightly knotted groupings — of cultural ideas , metaphoric structures , and historical facts — for investigation . For each of ...
... relationship between literary form and cultural history , my technique throughout is to open up a series of tightly knotted groupings — of cultural ideas , metaphoric structures , and historical facts — for investigation . For each of ...
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... relationship to its own history . Writing in Slavery and the Literary Imagination , 12 Hortense Spillers provides a powerful model for reading the twentieth century's relationship to slavery , arguing that slavery should be seen as ...
... relationship to its own history . Writing in Slavery and the Literary Imagination , 12 Hortense Spillers provides a powerful model for reading the twentieth century's relationship to slavery , arguing that slavery should be seen as ...
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... relationship between literary form and the economics of slavery . Faulkner's central figure here is the ledger , the plantation account - book in which the material lives of the slaves are recorded alongside information about live ...
... relationship between literary form and the economics of slavery . Faulkner's central figure here is the ledger , the plantation account - book in which the material lives of the slaves are recorded alongside information about live ...
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