Balancing the Books: Faulkner, Morrison and the Economies of Slavery

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Routledge, 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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Introduction Balancing the Books
1
The Narrative of the Ledger
13
The Return of the Unaccounted
37
The Debts of History
63
Closed Communities and Free Markets
97
Notes
129
Bibliography
151
Index
159
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Erik Dussere

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