Representing Poverty in the Anglophone Postcolonial World
Buch in deiner Nähe kaufen
Beschreibung
Representations of Poverty in Literature and Visual Arts
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.
Autor*in
Verena Jain-Warden
Verena Jain-Warden holds a PhD in Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies from the University of Bonn.
Themen in »Representing Poverty in the Anglophone Postcolonial World«
Poverty Poverty Studies Poverty Research Postcolonial Poverty Postcolonial Studies Deprivation Inequality Poverty Discourse Poverty in Literature Poverty in the Arts Anglophone Literatures Anglophone Cultures