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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... Reading and Storytelling in Contemporary American Fiction Robert Durante ALLEGORIES OF VIOLENCE Tracing the Writings ... Readings in American Literary Modernism Christopher Schedler THE MERCHANT OF MODERNISM The Economic Jew in Anglo ...
... Reading and Storytelling in Contemporary American Fiction Robert Durante ALLEGORIES OF VIOLENCE Tracing the Writings ... Readings in American Literary Modernism Christopher Schedler THE MERCHANT OF MODERNISM The Economic Jew in Anglo ...
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... reading group a boy could ask for , way back in the early stages of this project . Chris Warley , Alex Weheliye , Samira Kawash , Mae Hender- son , Bruce Robbins and Myra Jehlen all read and contributed crucially to the making of ...
... reading group a boy could ask for , way back in the early stages of this project . Chris Warley , Alex Weheliye , Samira Kawash , Mae Hender- son , Bruce Robbins and Myra Jehlen all read and contributed crucially to the making of ...
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... reading and writing about Morrison and Faulkner , I have tried to remain faithful both to the ef- fect these books have had on my own thinking and to their political possi- bilities at this particular moment of my writing and reading ...
... reading and writing about Morrison and Faulkner , I have tried to remain faithful both to the ef- fect these books have had on my own thinking and to their political possi- bilities at this particular moment of my writing and reading ...
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... reading public . Or , perhaps more accurately , her work has helped to make a wide reading public interested in such topics . As Louis Menand writes in The New Yorker , Morrison's novels seem so smoothly designed to gratify the ...
... reading public . Or , perhaps more accurately , her work has helped to make a wide reading public interested in such topics . As Louis Menand writes in The New Yorker , Morrison's novels seem so smoothly designed to gratify the ...
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... readings of the first lines of each of her novels . When in 1992 she published a book of criticism , Playing in the Dark , it be- came a kind of instant classic within the critical canon . The cultural capital represented in Morrison's ...
... readings of the first lines of each of her novels . When in 1992 she published a book of criticism , Playing in the Dark , it be- came a kind of instant classic within the critical canon . The cultural capital represented in Morrison's ...
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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