Dussere Balancing the Books

Faulkner, Morrison and the Economies of Slavery
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-71177-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 172 Seiten

Reihe: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dussere, Erik

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Balancing the Books
Chapter One: Accounting for Slavery: The Narrative of the Ledger
Go Down, Moses; The Bluest Eye; sula Chapter Two: Grave Marks: The Return of the Unaccounted
beloved; Absalom, Absalom!
Chapter Three: "You Want My Life?": The Debts of History
Intruder in the Dust; Song of Solomon; Tar Baby
Chapter Four: Figures in Blood: Closed Communities and Free Markets
paradise; Light in August; jazz
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