- Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 263 p.)
- Series Statement
- The new southern studies
- Uniform Title
- Disturbing calculations (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Disturbing calculations (Online)
- Subject
- 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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