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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... gender roles corresponding to biological sex " ( xii ) . The Agrarian appropriation of Faulkner has been highly successful and long - lived , and many progressive scholars and teachers remain skeptical about teaching or working with his ...
... gender roles corresponding to biological sex " ( xii ) . The Agrarian appropriation of Faulkner has been highly successful and long - lived , and many progressive scholars and teachers remain skeptical about teaching or working with his ...
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... gender that it's easy to think of her as writing to keep up with a trend . Since 1989 , two years after Beloved , her work has been the subject , in whole or in part , of nearly a hundred doctoral disserta- tions . But in fact it is the ...
... gender that it's easy to think of her as writing to keep up with a trend . Since 1989 , two years after Beloved , her work has been the subject , in whole or in part , of nearly a hundred doctoral disserta- tions . But in fact it is the ...
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... gender within which we now find Faulkner's work constantly embattled . ( xxi ) Although this " shrewd " approach might sound like anathema to Faulkner scholars , I would suggest that in fact it makes Morrison dangerously avail- able for ...
... gender within which we now find Faulkner's work constantly embattled . ( xxi ) Although this " shrewd " approach might sound like anathema to Faulkner scholars , I would suggest that in fact it makes Morrison dangerously avail- able for ...
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... gender , and class as powerfully determining forces in the construction of individual subjec- tivity , the unflagging attempt to understand slavery and its legacies in twentieth - century America.11 Each of my chapters examines a ...
... gender , and class as powerfully determining forces in the construction of individual subjec- tivity , the unflagging attempt to understand slavery and its legacies in twentieth - century America.11 Each of my chapters examines a ...
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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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