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Representing Poverty in the Anglophone Postcolonial World
Representations & Reflections 12
ISBN/EAN: 9783847113201
Umbreit-Nr.: 1114843
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 262 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 07.06.2021
Auflage: 1/2021
- Zusatztext
- 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.
- Kurztext
- Representations of Poverty in Literature and Visual Arts
- Autorenportrait
- Verena Jain-Warden holds a PhD in Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies from the University of Bonn.
- Schlagzeile
- 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.