Disturbing Calculations - 9780820329727
Un libro in lingua di Benson Melanie R. edito da Univ of Georgia Pr, 2008
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This ?narcissistic fetish of number” speaks to a tangle of desires and denials rooted in the history of the South, capitalism, and colonialism. No one evades participation in these ?disturbing equations,” says Benson, wherein longing for increase, accumulation, and superiority collides with repudiation of the means by which material wealth is attained. Writers from marginalized groups--including African Americans, Native Americans, women, immigrants, and the poor--have deeply internalized and co-opted methods and tropes of the master narrative even as they have struggled to wield new voices unmarked by the discourse of the colonizer.
Having nominally emerged from slavery's legacy, the South is now situated in the agonized space between free market capitalism and social progressivism. Elite southerners work to distance themselves from capitalism's dehumanizing mechanisms, while the marginalized yearn to realize the uniquely American narrative of accumulation and ascent. The fetish of numbers emerges to signify the futility of both.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Disturbing Calculations
- Sottotitolo: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Benson Melanie R.
- Editore: Univ of Georgia Pr
- Collana: (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 15 Gennaio '08
- Genere: LITERARY CRITICISM
- Argomenti : American literature Southern States History and criticism American literature 20th century History and criticism Value in literature
- Pagine: 263
- Peso gr: 520
- Dimensioni mm: 234 x 158 x 25
- ISBN-10: 082032972X
- EAN-13: 9780820329727