Disturbing calculations [electronic resource] : the economics of identity in postcolonial Southern literature, 1912-2002 / Melanie R. Benson.
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| Language: | English |
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Athens, Ga. :
University of Georgia Press,
©2008.
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| Series: | New southern studies.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.