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Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002 - The New Southern Studies Melanie Benson Taylor
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Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002 - The New Southern Studies
Melanie Benson Taylor
Moments 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.
320 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | August 15, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9780820331126 |
| Publishers | University of Georgia Press |
| Pages | 280 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 18 mm · 381 g |
| Language | English |