In Thomas Wolfe’s Look Homeward, Angel, Margaret Leonard says, “Never mind about algebra here. That’s for poor folks. There’s no need for algebra where two and two make five.” Moments of mathematical reckoning like this pervade twentieth-century southern literature, says Melanie R. Benson. In fiction by a large, diverse group of authors, including William Faulkner, Anita Loos, William Attaway, Dorothy Allison, and Lan Cao, Benson identifies a calculation-obsessed, anxiety-ridden discourse in which numbers are employed to determine social and racial hierarchies and establish individual worth and identity.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.

Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002 (New Southern Studies)

Literature & Fiction

Taylor, Melanie

History & Criticism

University of Georgia Press

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Consequences of Unwise Choices

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

AGD Publishing Services

<p>Many have heard the adage, “You will know a tree by the fruit it bears.” The same phrase can be applied to a variety of things in life. This book is aimed at using the same wisdom to frame your business.\nIn its inception your business starts from a seed. Like all seeds, in the right environment and with proper nutrients, development is inevitable. Your job is to position and prepare your seed for optimal growth. It is one thing to have a growing business; but it is another to have a business that functions properly and profitably.\nMy goal is to help you identify some of the good and bad practices that could boost or stunt your business growth. This step-by-step manual will help you to understand each component of growing your business and being accountable for the tactics to put in place.\nThis book will teach you how to set up your business from the start, as a mini corporation from proper documentation, setting goals, creating a budget and good banking habits. You will also be shown how to understand your “magic number”, eye-catching marketing, becoming your own HR department and much more!</p>

Growing Your Tree

Business & Money

Bussey, Eddie

Education & Reference

Relentless Publishing House

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