Representing poverty in the Anglophone postcolonial world : with 8 figures / Verena Jain-Warden, Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp (eds).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jain-Warden, Verena, editor.

Schmidt-Haberkamp, Barbara, editor.

Series:

Representations & reflections ; 12.

Representations & reflections : studies in anglophone literatures and cultures ; volume 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty in literature.

Poverty in art.

Physical Description:

262 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Göttingen, Germany : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. (V&R Unipress), [2021]

Summary:

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 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.

Notes:

"Publications of Bonn University Press are published by V & R unipress"--Title verso

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783847113201

3847113208

OCLC:

1242932716

Publisher Number:

99988448777