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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... become dull and nasty . Indeed , in addition to those I have named already , my sanity and equilibrium have been sustained by the friendship of many smart and gen- erous people , among them David Toise , Jason Gieger , Frédéric Mougenot ...
... become dull and nasty . Indeed , in addition to those I have named already , my sanity and equilibrium have been sustained by the friendship of many smart and gen- erous people , among them David Toise , Jason Gieger , Frédéric Mougenot ...
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... become a staple on literature syllabi , her position is especially strong . To the - often limited - extent that the lit- erary canon has come to include the work of writers whose race or gender previously excluded them , it has ...
... become a staple on literature syllabi , her position is especially strong . To the - often limited - extent that the lit- erary canon has come to include the work of writers whose race or gender previously excluded them , it has ...
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... becomes a vehicle for writing more interesting criticism about Faulkner . Philip Weinstein indicates in his introduction that when writing about these two authors together , two pitfalls immediately appear on the horizon , both of them ...
... becomes a vehicle for writing more interesting criticism about Faulkner . Philip Weinstein indicates in his introduction that when writing about these two authors together , two pitfalls immediately appear on the horizon , both of them ...
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... become cognizant of new facets of Faulkner's fiction , we also become aware of limitations in his work , because in Morrison's novels we recognize explorations that we can now see as engaged with similar social and narrative issues ...
... become cognizant of new facets of Faulkner's fiction , we also become aware of limitations in his work , because in Morrison's novels we recognize explorations that we can now see as engaged with similar social and narrative issues ...
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... becomes tragic in his inability to under- stand or connect himself to the past that he evokes . Quentin , she argues ... become the tale not of people suffering and needing pity , but of values and abstract ideas which have failed " ( 29 ) ...
... becomes tragic in his inability to under- stand or connect himself to the past that he evokes . Quentin , she argues ... become the tale not of people suffering and needing pity , but of values and abstract ideas which have failed " ( 29 ) ...
Table des matières
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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