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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... themes and ideas drawn from the marketplace . If slavery's foundation was the attempt to transform people into monetary value , then this attempt was the initial act in an ongoing process by which cultural traditions of race in America ...
... themes and ideas drawn from the marketplace . If slavery's foundation was the attempt to transform people into monetary value , then this attempt was the initial act in an ongoing process by which cultural traditions of race in America ...
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... themes of alienation in Faulkner and Virginia Woolf - and it seems clear that the Faulkner - Morrison connection will be the subject of much more discussion , academic and otherwise , in the years to come . Indeed , it is quickly ...
... themes of alienation in Faulkner and Virginia Woolf - and it seems clear that the Faulkner - Morrison connection will be the subject of much more discussion , academic and otherwise , in the years to come . Indeed , it is quickly ...
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... themes . Bloom and Gates , in their respective in- troductions , write brief and sensitive explorations of Morrison's influ- ences , but neither questions the validity of the influence model itself . Bloom draws on modernist writers ...
... themes . Bloom and Gates , in their respective in- troductions , write brief and sensitive explorations of Morrison's influ- ences , but neither questions the validity of the influence model itself . Bloom draws on modernist writers ...
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... themes and figures but also to the nego- tiations involved in writing about these two authors , these two sets of books , together . Having elaborated on the trials and pitfalls of pairing Morrison and Faulkner critically , it must be ...
... themes and figures but also to the nego- tiations involved in writing about these two authors , these two sets of books , together . Having elaborated on the trials and pitfalls of pairing Morrison and Faulkner critically , it must be ...
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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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