Southern Cultures: Moral/Economies Marisa Silverman Designed as a collection of

Designed as a collection of essays

and optimistic view of university culture and pedagogy

His work is also critically esteemed and well represented in The Norton Anthology of American Literature

either explicitly as spiritual directors or accompaniers

This bilingual collection of essays

Southern Cultures: Moral/Economies Marisa Silverman Designed as a collection ofThe Moral Economies issue asks what is ownable, who owns, who owes, who makes, who takes, what is work, what is worth? What is a fair price, and who pays it? Is a given transaction a theft, a trade, a gift? If the arid abstraction of "economics" relentlessly flattens this complexity into two dimensions, the notion of "moral economy" demands, in the words of historian Nell Irvin Painter, "a fully loaded cost accounting" that considers the true price of