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

• Pubblicazione: Leiden; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2021]; ©2022
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 electronic resource (302 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.933556
• Soggetto topico: Human security - In literature; Minorities in literature; Poverty in literature
• Persona (resp. second.): Schmidt-HaberkampBarbara; GymnichMarion; SchneiderKlaus P.
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Notes on Contributors -- Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Postcolonial World An Introduction -- Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp and Marion Gymnich -- PART 1 -- Media, Performance, Genres -- 1 Poverty, (Neo)orientalism and the Cinematic Re-presentation of 'Dark India' -- Clelia Clini -- 2 "Performing with What Little They Have" -- Street Theatre in the Slums of Ahmedabad -- Geoffrey V. Davis -- 3 Overcoming the 'Crisis of Nonrelation' through Formal Innovation -- Aboriginal Short Story Cycles -- Dorothee Klein -- PART 2 -- Intersectional Approaches -- 4 Precarious Lives in Tony Birch's Common People (2017) -- Sue Kossew -- 5 Diasporic Female Precarity and Agency in Sunjeev Sahota's The Year of the Runaways -- Maryam Mirza -- 6 Narrating the 'Black Male Underclass' -- The Ethics and Aesthetics of Coming into Representation -- Anna Lienen -- 7 Breaking the Cycle of Heathcliff -- Precarious Subjects from Emily Brontë to Caryl Phillips -- Julia Hoydis -- PART 3 -- (Publication) Politics and Precarity -- 8 Voices of Ugandan Women Writers -- Positioning FEMERITE Since 2006 -- Susan Nalugwa Kiguli -- 9 Poverty, Precarity and the Ethics of Representing Africa -- Sule Emmanuel Egya -- PART 4 -- Environmental Precarity -- 10 Sovereignty at the Margins -- The Oceanic Future of the Subaltern -- Malcolm Sen -- 11 Plantation and Planet -- Environmental Precarity in Anglophone Caribbean World Writing -- Jan Rupp -- PART 5 -- Representing Refugees and Immigrants -- 12 Narrative Zones of Refuge in The Lost Boy by Aher Arop Bol and A Man of Good Hope by Jonny Steinberg -- J.U. Jacobs -- 13 "Bringing the Wisdom of Wall Street to Limbe" -- Precarity and (American) Dream Narratives in Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers -- Julian Wacker -- 14 The Scenario of (Im-)Migrants as Scroungers and/or Parasites in British Media Discourses -- Andreas Musolff -- 15 Narrating Precarious Lives Refugee Tales, African Titanics, and the Year of the Runaways -- Janet M. Wilson -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Postcolonial World
• ISBN: 9789004466395; 9004466398
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910558096803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cross/Cultures ; ; 215.; Cross/Cultures Online.