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1 online resource (x, 288 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 108
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Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 108.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-283) and index. |
| Summary |
Fictions of Labor considers William Faulkner's representation of the structural paradoxes of labor dependency in the southern economy from the antebellum period through the New Deal. Linking the occlusive stylistics of Faulkner's writings to a generative social trauma that constitutes its formal core, Richard Godden argues that this trauma is a labor trauma, centered on the debilitating discovery by the southern owning class of its own production by those it subordinates. By way of close textual analysis and careful historical contextualization, Fictions of Labor produces a persuasive account of the ways in which Faulkner's work rests on deeply submerged anxieties about the legacy of violently coercive labor relations in the American South. |
| Contents |
Quentin Compson: tyrrhenian vase or crucible of race? -- Absalom, absalom!, Haiti, and labor history: reading unreadable revolutions -- Absalom, absalom! and Rosa Coldfield: or, "What is in the dark house?" -- The persistence of Thomas Sutpen: Absalom, absalom!, time, and labor discipline -- Forget Jerusalem, go to Hollywood -- "To die. Yes. To die?" (a coda to Absalom, absalom!). |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Political and social views.
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Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. |
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Political and social views. |
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Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. |
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Literature and society -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
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Literature and society. |
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Southern States. |
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History. |
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20th century |
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Industrial relations -- Southern States -- Historiography.
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Industrial relations. |
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Historiography. |
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Working class -- Southern States -- Historiography.
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Working class. |
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Labor supply -- Southern States -- Historiography.
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Labor supply. |
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Southern States -- In literature.
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans in literature. |
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Race relations in literature.
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Race relations in literature. |
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1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Godden, Richard, 1946- Fictions of labor. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997 0521561426 (DLC) 96025581 (OCoLC)34919762 |
| ISBN |
0511005237 (electronic book) |
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9780511005237 (electronic book) |
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0521561426 |
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