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



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Autore: Taylor Melanie Benson <1976-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Disturbing calculations [[electronic resource] ] : the economics of identity in postcolonial Southern literature, 1912-2002 / / Melanie R. Benson Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-55320-8
0-8203-3672-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910792446803321
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Serie: New southern studies.