A Stiff Man-Child Walking: Derrida’s Economy of Secrecy and Faulkner’s “Barn Burning”

Working from Jacques Derrida’s contentions about secrecy and authorial responsibility, and paying brief but specific attention to Charles Baudelaire’s “La fausse monnaie” (1869), as suggested by Derridean concerns over capitalist economics, this article studies the manner in which the inviolable and...

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Main Author: Michael Wainwright
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2011-12-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/9461