The aliens within : danger, disease, and displacement in representations of the racialized poor / edited by Geoffroy de Laforcade, Daniel Stein and Cathy C. Waegner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Laforcade, Geoffroy de, editor.

Stein, Daniel, 1975- editor.

Waegner, Cathy Covell, 1948- editor.

Series:

Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book

Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book ; v.80

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marginality, Social.

People with social disabilities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]

Summary:

The Anglia Book Series (ANGB) offers a selection of high quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English language and linguistics, on English and American literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, on the new English literatures, as well as on general and comparative literary studies, including aspects of cultural and literary theory.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

The Aliens Within: Danger, Disease, and Displacement in Representations of the Racialized Poor

Danger: Stigmatizing the Racialized Underclass

Bong Joon Ho Meets Richard Wright: Spatialized Poverty in The Host and Parasite or ‘The Koreans Who Lived Underground’

“Holes Swarming with Human Beings”: Racing the Urban Underclass in the Antebellum City Mystery Novel

The Black Body as Embodied Sound: Musicking as Personal and Communal Agency against the Othering of the Lettered Gaze in Puerto Rico in the Early Twentieth Century

Representations of the “Aliens Within”: Romanian Jews and Roma in Radu Jude’s Cinema

Alien Horrors: Lovecraft and the Racialized Underclass in the Age of Trump

Disease: Pathologizing the Other

Bounding Boukman: The Diseasing of Haitian Bodies in Representations of Race and Culture, from Zombies to Disaster Capitalism

De-Pathologizing Diversity: A Critical Analysis of Racialized Discourses of Difference and Deviance in The Black Border and the Imperative of Reframing Approaches to Linguistic Variation

Sowing the Seeds: Illness as Social Imbalance and Instrument of Social Change in Octavia Butler’s Speculative Fiction

Aliens Without and Within: Abjection from Tetter to Tumor in Toni Morrison’s Novels

African American Women and Stigma: Reactions to Medical Targeting for HIV and COVID-19

Displacement: Constructing and Countering Collapse

Spilling Over: Morality and Epidemiology in Ancient and Contemporary Contexts

Socrates in the City of Bones: Plato’s Republic and August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean

Displacement and Discipline: Refugees and the Unemployed in Living and Public Spaces in Greece

Resettled Refugees in the American South: Discourses of Victimization and Transgression in Clarkston, Georgia

Making the Beams of Architectural Poetry out of the Rubble of Displacement: Czesław Miłosz, Taha Muhammad Ali, and the Lyric of Constructed World Citizenry

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-078979-5

OCLC:

1340956455