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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... represented in Morrison's texts is problematic for Faulkner / Morrison studies , although it is also certainly part of the reason for those studies in the first place . To the extent that , as Menand points out , Morrison has defined ...
... represented in Morrison's texts is problematic for Faulkner / Morrison studies , although it is also certainly part of the reason for those studies in the first place . To the extent that , as Menand points out , Morrison has defined ...
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... representing , material that he has worked with in his novels as well . Morrison's texts provide an implicit revision of Faulkner's in their insistence on mitigating the claims made by the past upon the present , as opposed to ...
... representing , material that he has worked with in his novels as well . Morrison's texts provide an implicit revision of Faulkner's in their insistence on mitigating the claims made by the past upon the present , as opposed to ...
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... by participating as publishing editor and as public figure in representing the realities and possibilities of African American life to all Americans . There is a range of techniques and strategies that Morrison 8 Balancing the Books.
... by participating as publishing editor and as public figure in representing the realities and possibilities of African American life to all Americans . There is a range of techniques and strategies that Morrison 8 Balancing the Books.
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... represents one 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 ...
... represents one 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 ...
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... represented by the market and the community : how is it 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 ...
... represented by the market and the community : how is it 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 ...
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