Representing Poverty in the Anglophone Postcolonial World |
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Contribution by:
| Alber, Jan Althans, Katrin Berndt, Katrin Engel, Katharina Gertzen, Miriam Grunkemeier, Ellen Gymnich, Marion Hillrichs, Rainer Jain-Warden, Verena Kohli, Devindra Kohli, Vijaya John Korte, Barbara Nandi, Miriam Schmidt-Haberkamp, Barbara |
Editor:
| Jain-Warden, Verena Schmidt-Haberkamp, Barbara |
Series title: | Representations and Reflections Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-3-8471-1320-1 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2021 |
Publisher: | V&R Unipress
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $57.00 |
Book Description:
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Originally a concern primarily of social studies and economics, poverty has emerged as a significant thematic focus and analytical tool in literary and cultural studies in the last two decades. The "new poverty studies" are dedicated to analyzing representations of poverty and the poor in literature and the visual arts, in the news media and in social practices. They aim at exploring the frameworks of representation that impact the affective and ethical responses of audiences to...
More DescriptionOriginally a concern primarily of social studies and economics, poverty has emerged as a significant thematic focus and analytical tool in literary and cultural studies in the last two decades. The "new poverty studies" are dedicated to analyzing representations of poverty and the poor in literature and the visual arts, in the news media and in social practices. They aim at exploring the frameworks of representation that impact the affective and ethical responses of audiences to disenfranchised groups such as the poor. The contributions to this volume focus on representations of poverty in the Anglophone postcolonial world, exploring, for example, contemporary discourses on poverty in the UK, filmic representations of Nairobi slums or the agency of the poor in literature from India.