Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002

Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002

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Author/Contributor(s): Taylor, Melanie Benson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Date: 08/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
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.