03727nam 2200781Ia 450 991082474100332120240515215501.01-282-55320-80-8203-3672-6(CKB)2670000000016581(OCoLC)593295497(CaPaEBR)ebrary10367036(SSID)ssj0000336803(PQKBManifestationID)11303915(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000336803(PQKBWorkID)10283951(PQKB)10216678(MdBmJHUP)muse14654(Au-PeEL)EBL3038814(CaPaEBR)ebr10367036(CaONFJC)MIL255320(MiAaPQ)EBC3038814(EXLCZ)99267000000001658120071031d2008 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrDisturbing calculations the economics of identity in postcolonial Southern literature, 1912-2002 /Melanie R. Benson1st ed.Athens, Ga. University of Georgia Pressc20081 online resource (280 p.) New southern studiesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8203-2972-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-251) and index.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.Moments of mathematical reckoning pervade twentieth-century southern literature by authors including William Faulkner, Anita Loos, William Attaway, and Dorothy Allison, revealing a calculation-obsessed, anxiety-ridden discourse in which numbers are employed to determine social and racial hierarchies and establish individual worth and identity.New southern studies.American literature20th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican literatureSouthern StatesHistory and criticismEgo (Psychology) in literatureFetishism in literatureIdentity (Psychology) in literatureNarcissism in literatureNumbers in literatureValue in literatureValuePsychological aspectsSouthern StatesIn literatureAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Ego (Psychology) in literature.Fetishism in literature.Identity (Psychology) in literature.Narcissism in literature.Numbers in literature.Value in literature.ValuePsychological aspects.813/.5093553Taylor Melanie Benson1976-1596212MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824741003321Disturbing calculations3996553UNINA