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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... suggest that Morrison and Faulkner employ and interrogate these figures throughout their work in order to return anew to the history of slavery and through that return to intervene in the racial politics of the twentieth century . In ...
... suggest that Morrison and Faulkner employ and interrogate these figures throughout their work in order to return anew to the history of slavery and through that return to intervene in the racial politics of the twentieth century . In ...
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... suggests that Faulkner has been appropriated in a much more comprehensive way , that in the postwar forties an unlikely coalition of New Critics and New York Intellectuals helped to canonize his work , and that in the process " Faulkner ...
... suggests that Faulkner has been appropriated in a much more comprehensive way , that in the postwar forties an unlikely coalition of New Critics and New York Intellectuals helped to canonize his work , and that in the process " Faulkner ...
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... suggests rather that Morrison's novel reclaims Faulkner's . ( 95-96 , my emphasis ) Duvall's work is sensitive , insightful , and attentive to the difficult politics of writing about Faulkner and Morrison — as a literary critic , he is ...
... suggests rather that Morrison's novel reclaims Faulkner's . ( 95-96 , my emphasis ) Duvall's work is sensitive , insightful , and attentive to the difficult politics of writing about Faulkner and Morrison — as a literary critic , he is ...
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... suggest that in fact it makes Morrison dangerously avail- able for appropriation . If it is difficult for us to write at a critical distance from Morrison , it is comparatively easy ( for most of us ) to do so with Faulkner . By ...
... suggest that in fact it makes Morrison dangerously avail- able for appropriation . If it is difficult for us to write at a critical distance from Morrison , it is comparatively easy ( for most of us ) to do so with Faulkner . By ...
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... suggest , as Faulkner does , that the debt is inev- itable and that white and black Americans will encounter that debt at every turn , thwarting our plans and attempts to build a future in a nation where the earth itself is tainted by ...
... suggest , as Faulkner does , that the debt is inev- itable and that white and black Americans will encounter that debt at every turn , thwarting our plans and attempts to build a future in a nation where the earth itself is tainted by ...
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