Disturbing calculations : the economics of identity in postcolonial Southern literature, 1912-2002 / Melanie R. Benson.
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TextSeries: New southern studiesPublication details: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 263 pages)Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 9780820336725
- 0820336726
- American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Value in literature
- Value -- Psychological aspects
- Numbers in literature
- Fetishism in literature
- Narcissism in literature
- Ego (Psychology) in literature
- Identity (Psychology) in literature
- Southern States -- In literature
- Littérature américaine -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Valeur dans la littérature
- Valeur -- Aspect psychologique
- Fétichisme dans la littérature
- Narcissisme dans la littérature
- Identité (Psychologie) dans la littérature
- États-Unis (Sud) -- Dans la littérature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory
- American literature
- Ego (Psychology) in literature
- Fetishism in literature
- Identity (Psychology) in literature
- Literature
- Narcissism in literature
- Numbers in literature
- Value in literature
- Value -- Psychological aspects
- Southern States
- Littérature américaine -- États-Unis (sud) -- Histoire et critique
- Littérature américaine -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Valeur -- Dans la littérature
- Valeur -- Aspect psychologique
- Nombres -- Dans la littérature
- Soi -- Dans la littérature
- Identité (psychologie) -- Dans la littérature
- États-Unis (sud) -- Dans la littérature
- 1900-1999
- 813/.5093553 22
- PS261 .B48 2008eb
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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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-251) and index.
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