Nissley Intimate and Authentic Economies

The American Self-Made Man from Douglass to Chaplin
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-135-92458-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten

Reihe: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nissley, Tom

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Alienable, Intimate, Authentic
Alienation and Alienable Property
Patronage and the Intimate Economy
The Property in Authenticity
The Mixed Economies of the Self-Made Man
Chapter 1: Free Labor and Intimate Capital: The Postwar Autobiographies of Douglass, Brown, and Washington
"Outside de Store": Free Labor and Southern Agriculture after the War
Hard Earnings and the Intimacy of Reputation: Free Labor in the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
The Fugitive's Southern Home: William Wells Brown's Dispersed Autobiography
Clean Buildings: Executive Intimacies and Hard Capital in Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery
Chapter 2: The Nature Theater of Americana: Horatio Alger's Earnest Commodities
The Nature Theater of America: The Algers' Life of Edwin Forrest and the Ragged Dick Stories
Ben Bruce and the Threat of Commodified Writing
Postscript: Alienable Americana and "a Mutilated Boy's Gratitude"
Chapter 3: Racial Credit, White Money, and the Novel of Assimilative Lament
"Shinyness" and White Money
The Capital of Yearning
Chapter 4: The Reality Effect in the Film Machine: The Authentic Performances of the Silent Comedies
Thrills and the Average Boy
The Daredevil as Civil Engineer
Eisenstein and the "Chaplinesque"
Performances of Anonymity
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tom Nissley received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington. He has written for The Stranger and McSweeney's and works as an editor and writer in Seattle.