Representing poverty and precarity in a postcolonial world / edited by Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp, Marion Gymnich and Klaus P. Schneider.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien. Annual conference (2017 : Bonn, Germany)

Contributor:

Schmidt-Haberkamp, Barbara, editor.

Gymnich, Marion, editor.

Schneider, Klaus P., editor.

John Louis Haney Fund.

Series:

Cross/cultures ; 0924-1426 215.

Cross/cultures, 0924-1426 ; volume 215

ASNEL/GAPS Papers ; volume 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty in literature--Congresses.

Poverty in literature.

Human security--In literature--Congresses.

Human security.

Minorities in literature--Congresses.

Minorities in literature.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiv, 287 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

Summary:

"Poverty and precarity are among the most pressing social issues of today and have become a significant thematic focus and analytical tool in the humanities in the last two decades. This volume brings together an international group of scholars who investigate conceptualisations of poverty and precarity from the perspective of literary and cultural studies as well as linguistics. Analysing literature, visual arts and news media from across the postcolonial world, they aim at exploring the frameworks of representation that impact affective and ethical responses to disenfranchised groups and precarious subjects. Case studies focus on intersections between precarity and race, class, and gender, institutional frameworks of publishing, environmental precarity, and the framing of refugees and migrants as precarious subjects. Contributors: Clelia Clini, Geoffrey V. Davis, Dorothee Klein, Sue Kossew, Maryam Mirza, Anna Lienen, Julia Hoydis, Susan Nalugwa Kiguli, Sule Emmanuel Egya, Malcolm Sen, Jan Rupp, J.U. Jacobs, Julian Wacker, Andreas Musolff, Janet M. Wilson"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Media, Performance, Genres

1. Poverty, (Neo)orientalism and the Cinematic Re-presentation of `Dark India' / Clelia Clini

2. "Performing with What Little They Have" Street Theatre in the Slums of Ahmedabad / Geoffrey V. Davis

3. Overcoming the `Crisis of Nonrelation' through Formal Innovation Aboriginal Short Story Cycles / Dorothee Klein

pt. 2 Intersectional Approaches

4. Precarious Lives in Tony Birch's Common People (2017) / Sue Kossew

5. Diasporic Female Precarity and Agency in Sunjeev Sahota's The Year of the Runaways / Maryam Mirza

6. Narrating the `Black Male Underclass' The Ethics and Aesthetics of Coming into Representation / Anna Lienen

7. Breaking the Cycle of Heathcliff Precarious Subjectsfrom Emily Bronte to Caryl Phillips / Julia Hoydis

pt. 3 (Publication) Politics and Precarity

8. Voices of Ugandan Women Writers Positioning FEMRITE Since 2006 / Susan Nalugwa Kiguli

9. Poverty, Precarity and the Ethics of Representing Africa / Sule Emmanuel Egya

pt. 4 Environmental Precarity

10. Sovereignty at the Margins The Oceanic Future of the Subaltern / Malcolm Sen

11. Plantation and Planet Environmental Precarity in Anglophone Caribbean World Writing / Jan Rupp

pt. 5 Representing Refugees and Immigrants

12. Narrative Zones of Refuge in The Lost Boy by Aher Arop Bol and A Man of Good Hope by Jonny Steinberg / J. U. Jacobs

13. "Bringing the Wisdom of Wall Street to Limbe" Precarity and (American) Dream Narratives in Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers / Julian Wacker

14. The Scenario of (Im-)Migrants as Scroungers and/or Parasites in British Media Discourses / Andreas Musotff

15. Narrating Precarious Lives Refugee Tales, African Titanics, and The Year of the Runaways / Janet M. Wilson.

Notes:

Selection of papers presented at the annual conference of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies/Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien (GAPS) at the University of Bonn, Germany, May 25-27, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Louis Haney Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Representing poverty and precarity in a postcolonial world

ISBN:

9789004465657

9004465650

OCLC:

1259585077

Publisher Number:

99989456974

9789004465657