Representing poverty in the Anglophone postcolonial world /

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

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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)
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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.

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