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 |