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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... past that was not available in history " ( Faulkner and Women 296 ) . In this study I argue that for both Morrison and Faulkner , that novelistic articula- tion of the past is enabled by an engagement with the economics of slavery . The ...
... past that was not available in history " ( Faulkner and Women 296 ) . In this study I argue that for both Morrison and Faulkner , that novelistic articula- tion of the past is enabled by an engagement with the economics of slavery . The ...
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... past , Edward Ball explains that , " Rather than responsible , I felt accountable for what had happened , called on to try to explain it❞ ( 14 ) . That resonant eco- nomic , ethical , and narrative notion of accountability , tied to the ...
... past , Edward Ball explains that , " Rather than responsible , I felt accountable for what had happened , called on to try to explain it❞ ( 14 ) . That resonant eco- nomic , ethical , and narrative notion of accountability , tied to the ...
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... past decade or so has seen a recuperation , or a reinvention , of Faulkner . In the preface to John Duvall's 1990 book Faulkner's Marginal Couple : Invisible , Out- law , and Unspeakable Communities , he describes politically ...
... past decade or so has seen a recuperation , or a reinvention , of Faulkner . In the preface to John Duvall's 1990 book Faulkner's Marginal Couple : Invisible , Out- law , and Unspeakable Communities , he describes politically ...
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... 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 [ Morrison and ...
... 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 [ Morrison and ...
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... past , and the Faulknerian protagonist becomes tragic in his inability to under- stand or connect himself to the past that he evokes . Quentin , she argues , is so self - involved that he cannot see the long - dead people he describes ...
... past , and the Faulknerian protagonist becomes tragic in his inability to under- stand or connect himself to the past that he evokes . Quentin , she argues , is so self - involved that he cannot see the long - dead people he describes ...
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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