Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Postcolonial World / / edited by Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp, Marion Gymnich, and Klaus P. Schneider.

• Superior document: Cross/Cultures Series ; Volume 215
• Author: Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien. Annual conference
• TeilnehmendeR: Schmidt-Haberkamp, Barbara,; Gymnich, Marion,; Schneider, Klaus P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill nv,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Cross/cultures ; Volume 215.
• Physical Description: 1 electronic resource (302 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

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

Table of Contents

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Representing Poverty and Precarityin a Postcolonial World: An Introduction -- Overview -- Works Cited -- Part 1 Media, Performance, Genres -- Chapter 1 Poverty, (Neo)orientalism and the Cinematic Re-presentation of 'Dark India' -- 1 Orientalism, Exoticism and India -- 2 'Dark India' Narratives -- 3 The Slum and the Exotica of Poverty -- 4 Hindi Cinema and the Aesthetic of Poverty -- 5 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2 "Performing with What Little They Have": Street Theatre in the Slums of Ahmedabad -- 1 Introduction -- 2 History of the Community -- 3 Budhan Theatre: Actors, Aims, Modes of Performance -- 4 Budhan's Plays -- 5 Adapting European Plays -- 6 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3 Overcoming the 'Crisis of Nonrelation' through Formal Innovation: Aboriginal Short Story Cycles -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Promise of Relations - Aboriginal Short Story Cycles and Reading Practices -- 3 Swallow the Air - Overcoming the 'Crisis of Nonrelation' -- 4 Defying Reader Expectations -- 5 Conclusion - The Potential of Relationality -- Works Cited -- Part 2 Intersectional Approaches -- Chapter 4 Precarious Lives in Tony Birch's Common People (2017) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Agency and Resilience -- 3 The Charity of Others -- 4 The Precarity of Family Life -- 5 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5 Diasporic Female Precarity and Agency in Sunjeev Sahota's The Year of the Runaways -- 1 Conceptualizing Female Precarity and Agency -- 2 The Girl from God -- 3 Gendered Economic Precarity -- 4 Religious Faith, Honour and Moral Responsibility -- Acknowledgements -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6 Narrating the 'Black Male Underclass': The Ethics and Aesthetics of Coming into Representation -- 1 Deconstructing the 'Violent Avenger' in East of Acre Lane.

2 Confronting Enemies outside and within the Community -- 3 Empathising with the 'Noble Savage' in Pigeon English -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7 Breaking the Cycle of Heathcliff: Precarious Subjects from Emily Brontë to Caryl Phillips -- 1 Brontë's Lost Child -- 2 The Lost Child Writing back -- 3 Being Outcast - Between Nature and Nurture -- 4 The Precarity of Orphanhood and Familial Bonds -- 5 Cycles of Loss -- 6 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Part 3 (Publication) Politics and Precarity -- Chapter 8 Voices of Ugandan Women Writers: Positioning femrite Since 2006 -- 1 femrite within the Ugandan Literary Landscape: The First Ten Years -- 2 femrite: Challenges and Achievements Since 2006 -- 3 Recent Developments in femrite -- Works Cited -- Chapter 9 Poverty, Precarity and the Ethics of Representing Africa -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Africa and the Paradox of the Migration Impulse -- 3 African Literary Production and the "Extroverted" Narrative -- 4 Rethinking the Role of African Writers -- 5 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Part 4 Environmental Precarity -- Chapter 10 Sovereignty at the Margins: The Oceanic Future of the Subaltern -- 1 The Oceanic Turn -- 2 The Muddy Texture of Precarity -- 3 Sovereignty at the Margins -- Works Cited -- Chapter 11 Plantation and Planet: Environmental Precarity in Anglophone Caribbean World Writing -- 1 Introduction -- 2 World Writing as Ethical Imperative -- 3 Poet(h)ic Visions of the World -- 4 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Part 5 Representing Refugees and Immigrants -- Chapter 12 Narrative Zones of Refuge in The Lost Boy by Aher Arop Bol and A Man of Good Hope by Jonny Steinberg -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Home and Unhoming -- 3 Aher Arop Bol, The Lost Boy (2009) - A Refugee Memoir -- 4 Jonny Steinberg, A Man of Good Hope (2014) - A Mediated Narrative -- 5 Living between Zones -- 6 Refiguring the Refugee -- 7 Conclusion -- Works Cited.

Chapter 13 "Bringing the Wisdom of Wall Street to Limbe": Precarity and (American) Dream Narratives in Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers -- 1 American Dream Discourse and Precarity in the Novel -- 2 Re-living the Dream: Behold the Dreamer's Use of Dream Tropes -- 3 Translocating the American Dream -- Works Cited -- Chapter 14 The Scenario of (Im-)Migrants as Scroungers and/or Parasites in British Media Discourses -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Data and Methodology -- 3 Immigrants as 'Parasites' -- 3.1 Immigrants as 'Parasites' in the Have Your Say Discussion Forum -- 3.2 Immigrants as 'Parasites' in the Press -- 3.3 Immigrants as 'Parasites' in the Blogosphere -- 4 Conclusions -- Works Cited -- Chapter 15 Narrating Precarious Lives: Refugee Tales, African Titanics, and The Year of the Runaways -- 1 Refugees and Narrative Representation -- 2 Refugee Writing, Precarity and Ethical Engagement -- 3 Mediated, Collective Story-Telling in Refugee Tales -- 4 The Poetics of Risk: African Titanics -- 5 Migration and Precarity in The Year of the Runaways -- 6 Conclusion: Precarious Lives and Frameworks of Perception -- Works Cited -- Index.