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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... LANGUAGE OF THE OPPRESSOR A Discussion of Selected Postcolonial Literature from Ireland , Africa and America Patsy J. Daniels EUGENIC FANTASIES Racial Ideology in the Literature and Popular Culture of the 1920's Betsy L. Nies THE LIFE ...
... LANGUAGE OF THE OPPRESSOR A Discussion of Selected Postcolonial Literature from Ireland , Africa and America Patsy J. Daniels EUGENIC FANTASIES Racial Ideology in the Literature and Popular Culture of the 1920's Betsy L. Nies THE LIFE ...
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... language of " reclaiming " points to another pitfall for critics at- tempting to write about these two authors . We , especially those of us studying literature in the academy , live in a cultural moment at which Morrison's novels are ...
... language of " reclaiming " points to another pitfall for critics at- tempting to write about these two authors . We , especially those of us studying literature in the academy , live in a cultural moment at which Morrison's novels are ...
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... language , both writers having the capacity to slip into stylistic registers of emotion- ally charged and poetry - like fullness ; narratives that circle and build- again without linear progression — toward a hidden fact or mystery at ...
... language , both writers having the capacity to slip into stylistic registers of emotion- ally charged and poetry - like fullness ; narratives that circle and build- again without linear progression — toward a hidden fact or mystery at ...
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... language and our ways of apprehending the world at every level from the banal— “ I don't buy that " or " there's no accounting for taste ” — to the sublime , or at least the literary , and studies of the relationship be- tween economics ...
... language and our ways of apprehending the world at every level from the banal— “ I don't buy that " or " there's no accounting for taste ” — to the sublime , or at least the literary , and studies of the relationship be- tween economics ...
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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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