Inequality / editor, Kimberly Drake, Scripps College, California.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Drake, Kimberly, 1965- editor.

Series:

Critical insights.

Critical Insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Equality in literature.

Marginality, Social, in literature.

Segregation in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxii, 238 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Incorporated ; Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, [2018]

Summary:

This book of essays addresses the theme of inequality and includes critical readings in classic and contemporary works.

Contents:

Critical contexts. Caste : The Engine That Runs (ruins) India / Lucky Issar - Essay Discusses: Arundhati Roy's novels The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Punishment, Spirituality, and Materialism in the Anti-Utopia / Roger Chapman - Essay Discusses: Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novels Poor Folk, Notes from the Dead House, Winter Notes on Summer Impressions, Notes from the Underground, and Crime and Punishment

Leveling the Playing Field: Cultural Relativism and Inequality / Adam T. Bogar - Essay Discusses: Kurt Vonnegut's novel The Sirens of Titan and short story "Harrison Bergeron"

Structural Inequality, Labor Exploitation, and the Foundation of America / Jericho Williams - Essay Discusses: Solomon Northup's slave narrative Twelve Years a Slave and Frederick Douglass' slave narrative My Bondage and My Freedom

Critical readings. Racial Classifications and Crossing the Color Line / Almas Khan - Essay Discusses: Nella Larsen's novel Passing

Ideological Control and Human Nature in the Dystopian Society / Boyarkina Iren - Essay Discusses: George Orwell's novel 1984

The "Closet" and Marginalized Identities / Sonia Mae Brown - Essay Discusses: James Baldwin's story "The Outing" and novel Giovanni's Room

White Femininity and the Black Female Gaze: Internalized Oppression / Julie Prebel - Essay Discusses: Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye

Not Just Any Ol' Injun: The (Re)Appropriation and Alteration of Native American Stereotypes / Robyn Johnson - Essay Discusses: Louise Erdrich's novel Tracks

Tracking Wolves: A Metaphor for Cross-border Inequality / Peter Arnds - Essay Discusses: Cormac McCarthy's novel The Crossing

Historical Trauma and the Haunting of "Comfort Women," / Ji Nang Kim - Essay Discusses: Nora Okja Keller's novel Comfort Woman and Yong Soon Min's Art Works

Dwelling in Time: The Representation of Poverty on Film / Andrew Bingham - Essay Discusses: Pedro Costa's film series Letters from Fontainhas

Immigrants, Nationalism, and Xenophobia in London / �Onder �Cakirtas - Essay Discusses: Anders Lustgarten's play A Day at the Racists.

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (Gale Virtual Reference Library, viewed June 15, 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781682176917

1682176916

OCLC:

1043783914