Disturbing calculations [[electronic resource] ] : the economics of identity in postcolonial Southern literature, 1912-2002 / / Melanie R. Benson

• Autore: Taylor Melanie Benson <1976->
• Pubblicazione: Athens, Ga., : University of Georgia Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.5093553
• Soggetto topico: American literature - 20th century - History and criticism; American literature - Southern States - History and criticism; Ego (Psychology) in literature; Fetishism in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Narcissism in literature; Numbers in literature; Value in literature; Value - Psychological aspects
• Soggetto geografico: Southern States In literature
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-251) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Disturbing calculations
• ISBN: 1-282-55320-8; 0-8203-3672-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792446803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New southern studies.