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Disturbing calculations the economics of identity in postcolonial Southern literature, 1912-2002

Title
Disturbing calculations [electronic resource] : the economics of identity in postcolonial Southern literature, 1912-2002 / Melanie R. Benson.
Author
Taylor, Melanie Benson, 1976-
Publication
Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2008.

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Description
1 online resource (xi, 263 p.)
Series Statement
The new southern studies
Uniform Title
Disturbing calculations (Online)
Alternative Title
Disturbing calculations (Online)
Subject
  • 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
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-251) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2007045060
OCLC
ssj0000336803
Author
Taylor, Melanie Benson, 1976-
Title
Disturbing calculations [electronic resource] : the economics of identity in postcolonial Southern literature, 1912-2002 / Melanie R. Benson.
Imprint
Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2008.
Series
The new southern studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-251) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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