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Cross/cultures, 0924-1426 ; volume 215 |
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ASNEL/GAPS Papers ; volume 25 |
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Cross/cultures ; 215. 0924-1426
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Selection of papers presented at the annual conference of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies/Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien (GAPS) at the University of Bonn, Germany, May 25-27, 2017. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
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English. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Poverty in literature -- Congresses.
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Human security in literature -- Congresses.
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Minorities in literature -- Congresses.
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Pauvreté dans la littérature -- Congrès.
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Literature: history & criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Human security in literature
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Minorities in literature
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Poverty in literature
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Literature & literary studies |
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Literature: history & criticism |
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Electronic books.
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Congress |
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Schmidt-Haberkamp, Barbara, editor.
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Gymnich, Marion, editor.
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Schneider, Klaus P., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien. (2017 : Representing poverty and precarity in a postcolonial world Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021] 9789004465657 (DLC) 2021036122 |
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9789004466395 (ebook) |
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9004466398 |
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9004465650 |
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9789004465657 |
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9789004465657 (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
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9789004465657 |
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AU@ 000069945679 |
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