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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... Faulkner's desperate , compelling novels are pro- duced out of an exasperation at being unable to escape the ... Faulkner- ian mode , Morrison works to imagine a narrative that brings the force of the past to bear on the present and yet ...
... Faulkner's desperate , compelling novels are pro- duced out of an exasperation at being unable to escape the ... Faulkner- ian mode , Morrison works to imagine a narrative that brings the force of the past to bear on the present and yet ...
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... Faulkner both employ , or that at least take similar forms , in their novels . All these technical innovations might be described , on a case - by - case basis , as either modernist or postmodernist . Rather than trying to reveal Faulkner's ...
... Faulkner both employ , or that at least take similar forms , in their novels . All these technical innovations might be described , on a case - by - case basis , as either modernist or postmodernist . Rather than trying to reveal Faulkner's ...
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... Faulkner's " The Bear , " which clearly articulates a relationship between literary form and the economics of slavery . Faulkner's central figure here is the ledger , the plantation account - book in which the material lives of the ...
... Faulkner's " The Bear , " which clearly articulates a relationship between literary form and the economics of slavery . Faulkner's central figure here is the ledger , the plantation account - book in which the material lives of the ...
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... Faulkner writes of slav- ery as a debt owed by white Southerners , it is not a monetary debt but a " debt of honor ... Faulkner's characters none- theless attempt to preserve the form of honor as an act of resistance to the " Northern ...
... Faulkner writes of slav- ery as a debt owed by white Southerners , it is not a monetary debt but a " debt of honor ... Faulkner's characters none- theless attempt to preserve the form of honor as an act of resistance to the " Northern ...
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