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Author:

Benson, Melanie R., 1976-

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Georgia Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xi, 263 p. ; 24 cm.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-251) and index.

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.

Series:

The new southern studies

ISBN:

0820331120 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780820331126 (pbk. : alk. paper)
082032972X (alk. paper)
9780820329727 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007045060

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)