While reading Stallybrass’s discussion of the social relations of the pawnshop and the emotional valences of clothing, I couldn’t help but recall this short story by Sherman Alexie (a Seattle-based Coeur d’Alene/Spokane Indian writer): “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” (the full text is available at that link).
February 3, 2009 at 11:41 pm
NYT on pawnshops, last year: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/14/nyregion/14pawn.html