Representing poverty in the Anglophone postcolonial world / / edited by Verena Jain-Warden and Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp.

• Superior document: Representations & Reflections. ; v.12
• TeilnehmendeR: Jain-Warden, Verena,; Schmidt-Haberkamp, Barbara,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, Germany : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Representations & Reflections.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (263 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp: Introduction -- Body -- Overview -- References -- 1. The Ethics of Representing Poverty -- Barbara Korte: Mumbai's Slums on London's South Bank: Ethics and Aesthetics of Staging Poverty ˋGlobally' -- Configuring Poverty Globally -- Speaking and Listening in Katherine Boo's Creative Nonfiction -- Adapting Boo's Book for the London Stage -- The National Theatre as a Space of Discussion -- References -- Katharina Engel: ˋPoverty Porn' in Spoken Word Poetry? Kate Tempest's Brand New Ancients -- Introduction -- Discourse and Demonization: Defining ˋPoverty' and ˋPrecarity' in the UK -- Brand New Ancient Storytelling: Genre‍(s), Politics and Performance -- Focus on Clive: ˋSame Old Story' about an ˋUnderclass Chav'? -- The Cl-ˋeye'-max of the Epic: Clive and Spider as "Abject Whites" -- Glorious Gloria: A Real Heroine and Survivor or an Idealised Poor Saint? -- Conclusion: Brand New Ancients as Political ˋPoverty Porn' in Performance -- References -- Rainer Hillrichs: Slum Affirmation and Magic Neorealism in One Fine Day Films' Soul Boy -- Introduction -- Kenyan/Kiberan perspectives, strata, and viewers -- Agency and voice -- An affirmative representation of Kibera -- Problems out of focus -- Magic neorealism -- Karen: Kibera's ˋother' -- Soul Boy's poverty politics -- References -- 2. Intersecting Aspects of Poverty and Agency -- Devindra Kohli: The Relevance of the Transforming Image of Self-volitional Deprivation: R. K. Narayan's The Guide -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- References -- Verena Jain-Warden: Facing Loss - Downward Social Mobility in Lauren Beukes's Zoo City -- The Representation of Poverty and Social Class in Zoo City -- Downward Social Mobility and the Dynamics of Poverty -- Loss as the Protagonist's Defining Feature.

Genre, Form, and the Representation of Poverty as Hybridity -- References -- 3. Transforming Stereotypes, Rewriting Poverty Discourse -- Miriam Nandi: "Idle Poor and Lazy Natives?" - Re-Writing Stereotypes about the Global Poor -- Faster! Sociological Theories of Acceleration -- "A bucking yodeling taxi" - Acceleration and Poverty in The Inheritance of Loss -- Poverty beyond High-Speed Society -- Conclusions -- References -- Jan Alber: The Humorous Negotiation of Aboriginal Poverty: Busted out Laughing by Dot Collard and Alexis Wright's Carpentaria -- Introduction -- Busted out Laughing: Laughing off the Colonialist Heritage -- Poverty, Resilience, and Satire: Carpentaria -- Conclusions -- References -- Vijaya John Kohli: Ignoring Poverty in Sociolinguistic Discourse: The Curious Case of "Indian English" as a Linguistic Concept -- References -- 4. Spatial Representations of Poverty -- Miriam Gertzen: Space-situatedness and Localised Poverties in Recent Young Adult Dystopian Novels -- References -- Ellen Grünkemeier: South African Townships - Narrating Poverty in Spatial Terms in Sindiwe Magona's Writing -- Introduction -- The Politics of Imagining and Defining Poverty -- Imagining Poverty in Sindiwe Magona's Writing -- Township vs. Suburb -- Lack of Safety -- Lack of Habitable Space -- Lack of Open Space -- Lack of Private Space -- Conclusion -- References -- 5. Global and Local Displacements -- Katrin Berndt: Paradise Lost: Intersections of Material, Cultural, and Emotional Poverty in NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names -- Introduction -- Double Binds and Diasporic Writing -- "The Home of Things Falling Apart" -- "Destroyedmichygen" -- References -- Katrin Althans: Representations of Australian Refugee Experiences: Poverty or Bare Life? -- References.

Marion Gymnich: Two Representations of Homelessness on British Television - Cathy Come Home and Call the Midwife -- Introduction -- Raising public awareness of homelessness: Cathy Come Home -- In praise of the post-war welfare state: Call the Midwife -- Conclusion -- References -- Contributors.