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100	1		_aTaylor, Melanie Benson.
245	1	0	_aDisturbing Calculations : _bThe Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aAthens : _bUniversity of Georgia Press, _c2008.
264		4	_c©2008.
300			_a1 online resource (280 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: The Fetish of Number: Narcissism, Economics, and the Twentieth-Century Southern Ego -- CHAPTER ONE: The Fetish of Surplus Value: Reconstructing the White Elite in Allen Tate, William Alexander Percy, William Faulkner, and Thomas Wolfe -- CHAPTER TWO: Stealing Themselves Out of Slavery: African American Southerners in Richard Wright, William Attaway, James Weldon Johnson, and Zora Neale Hurston -- CHAPTER THREE: The Measures of Love: Southern Belles and Working Girls in Frances Newman, Anita Loos, and Katherine Anne Porter -- CHAPTER FOUR: Contemporary Crises of Value: White Trash, Black Paralysis, and Elite Amnesia in Dorothy Allison, Alice Walker, and Walker Percy -- CHAPTER FIVE: Re-membering 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 -- CONCLUSION: Disturbing the Calculation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
520			_aMoments of mathematical reckoning pervade twentieth-century southern literature by authors including William Faulkner, Anita Loos, William Attaway, and Dorothy Allison, revealing a calculation-obsessed, anxiety-ridden discourse in which numbers are employed to determine social and racial hierarchies and establish individual worth and identity.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aAmerican literature-20th century-History and criticism.
650		0	_aAmerican literature-Southern States-History and criticism.
650		0	_aEgo (Psychology) in literature.
650		0	_aFetishism in literature.
650		0	_aIdentity (Psychology) in literature.
650		0	_aNarcissism in literature.
650		0	_aNumbers in literature.
650		0	_aValue in literature.
650		0	_aValue-Psychological aspects.
650		0	_aSouthern States-In literature.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aTaylor, Melanie Benson _tDisturbing Calculations _dAthens : University of Georgia Press,c2008 _z9780820329727
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3038814 _zClick to View
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