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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... African - American Fiction Bertram D. Ashe THE SELF Wired Technology and Subjectivity in Contemporary Narrative Lisa Yaszek THE SPACE AND PLACE OF MODERNISM The Little Magazine in New York Adam McKible THE FIGURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS ...
... African - American Fiction Bertram D. Ashe THE SELF Wired Technology and Subjectivity in Contemporary Narrative Lisa Yaszek THE SPACE AND PLACE OF MODERNISM The Little Magazine in New York Adam McKible THE FIGURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS ...
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... African - American fiction " ( 2 ) . Al- though Gates , too , seems a bit too quick to make Morrison no more than a ... Black secular vernacular speech rituals and discourses ” ( ix ) .5 Most contemporary studies that work with Faulkner ...
... African - American fiction " ( 2 ) . Al- though Gates , too , seems a bit too quick to make Morrison no more than a ... Black secular vernacular speech rituals and discourses ” ( ix ) .5 Most contemporary studies that work with Faulkner ...
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... American past . Are you not , after all , implying that without this white , Southern male's seminal text , that of the African - American woman would never have come to fruition ? But in positing an intertextual relation between ...
... American past . Are you not , after all , implying that without this white , Southern male's seminal text , that of the African - American woman would never have come to fruition ? But in positing an intertextual relation between ...
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... American Presence in American Literature , " in which she elucidates her discussion of " the im- pact of Afro ... African Americans should teach African American literature , she nonetheless points to the problem of the appropriation of ...
... American Presence in American Literature , " in which she elucidates her discussion of " the im- pact of Afro ... African Americans should teach African American literature , she nonetheless points to the problem of the appropriation of ...
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... black academic friends does not qualify white pro- fessors trained in Milton , or Shakespeare , or the Victorians , or William Faulkner for that matter , to teach , write on , or proclaim their authority in matters relating to African ...
... black academic friends does not qualify white pro- fessors trained in Milton , or Shakespeare , or the Victorians , or William Faulkner for that matter , to teach , write on , or proclaim their authority in matters relating to African ...
Table des matières
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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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