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Disturbing calculations : the economics of identity in postcolonial Southern literature, 1912-2002 /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Taylor, Melanie Benson, 1976-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, ©2008.
Colección:New southern studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.