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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... thinking and reading , almost certainly as a ploy to keep me quiet on long car trips . They also taught me , each in their own way , to enjoy humor , music , and the people around me — all things that have helped to sustain me through ...
... thinking and reading , almost certainly as a ploy to keep me quiet on long car trips . They also taught me , each in their own way , to enjoy humor , music , and the people around me — all things that have helped to sustain me through ...
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... thinking and to their political possi- bilities at this particular moment of my writing and reading . The first debt I owe , then , is to these two writers , whose books have helped to shape my ongoing desire and will to understand the ...
... thinking and to their political possi- bilities at this particular moment of my writing and reading . The first debt I owe , then , is to these two writers , whose books have helped to shape my ongoing desire and will to understand the ...
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... thinking through his own institutional positions and investments . But the language of " reclaiming " points to another pitfall for critics at- tempting to write about these two authors . We , especially those of us studying literature ...
... thinking through his own institutional positions and investments . But the language of " reclaiming " points to another pitfall for critics at- tempting to write about these two authors . We , especially those of us studying literature ...
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... thinking about America's 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 ...
... thinking about America's 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 ...
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