Disturbing calculations: the economics of identity in postcolonial Southern literature, 1912-2002
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Main Author: Taylor, Melanie Benson (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens, Ga. University of Georgia Press c2008
Series:New southern studies
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Item Description:The fetish of number : narcissism, economics, and the twentieth century Southern ego -- The fetish of surplus value : reconstructing the white elite in Allen Tate, William Alexander Percy, William Faulkner, and Thomas Wolfe -- Stealing themselves out of slavery : African American Southerners in Richard Wright, William Attaway, James Weldon Johnson, and Zora Neale Hurston -- The measures of love : Southern belles and working girls in Frances Newman, Anita Loos, and Katherine Anne Porter -- Contemporary crises of value : white trash, black paralysis, and elite amnesia in Dorothy Allison, Alice Walker, and Walker Percy -- Remembering the missing : Native Americans, immigrants, and Atlanta's murdered children in Louis Owens, Marilou Awiakta, Lan Cao, James Baldwin, Toni Cade Bambara, and Tayari Jones
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-251) and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 263 p.)
ISBN:0820336726
9780820336725

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