Intimate and Authentic Economies

Tom Nissley received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington. He has written for The Stranger andMcSweeney's and works as an editor and writer in Seattle.

• Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Alienable, Intimate, Authentic Alienation and Alienable Property Patronage and the Intimate Economy The Property in Authenticity The Mixed Economies of the Self-Made Man Chapter 1: Free Labor and Intimate Capital: The Postwar Autobiographies of Douglass, Brown, and Washington Outside de Store: Free Labor and Southern Agriculture after the War Hard Earnings and the Intimacy of Reputation: Free Labor in the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass The Fugitive's Southern Home: William Wells Brown's Dispersed Autobiography Clean Buildings: Executive Intimacies and Hard Capital in Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery Chapter 2: The Nature Theater of Americana: Horatio Alger's Earnest Commodities The Nature Theater of America: The Algers' Life of Edwin Forrest and the Ragged Dick Stories Ben Bruce and the Threat of Commodified Writing Postscript: Alienable Americana and a Mutilated Boy's Gratitude Chapter 3: Racial Credit, White Money, and the Novel of Assimilative Lament Shinyness and White Money The Capital of Yearning Chapter 4: The Reality Effect in the Film Machine: The Authentic Performances of the Silent Comedies Thrills and the Average Boy The Daredevil as Civil Engineer Eisenstein and the Chaplinesque Performances of Anonymity Notes Bibliography Index