Narrating Poverty and Precarity in Britain
Seiten
2014
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-036793-5 (ISBN)
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-036793-5 (ISBN)
The series Culture and Conflict aims to promote a dynamic, pluridisciplinary dialogue meant to discuss the multiple ways in which conflict influences, supports or constrains the production of meaning in modernity. It publishes innovative original scholarship from the fields of literary and cultural studies as well as media, visual and film studies. Culture and conflict inevitably go together. The very idea of culture is marked by the notion of difference and creative, i.e., conflictual interaction. Differential markers, such as self and other, inside and outside, high and low, pure and dirty, old and new, support the key themes of the study of culture, e.g., identity and diversity, memory and trauma, translation of cultures and globalization, mediation and exclusion. The new series Culture and Conflict aims to promote a dynamic, pluridisciplinary dialogue meant to discuss the multiple ways in which conflict influences, supports or constrains the production of meaning in modernity. It publishes innovative original scholarship from the fields of literary and cultural studies as well as media, visual and film studies.
Poverty and precarity have gained a new societal and political presence in the twenty-first century's advanced economies. This is reflected in cultural production, which this book discusses for a wide range of media and genres from the novel to reality television. With a focus on Britain, its chapters divide their attention between current representations of poverty and important earlier narratives that have retained significant relevance today.The book's contributions discuss the representation of social suffering with attention to agencies of enunciation, ethical implications of 'voice' and 'listening', limits of narratability, the pitfalls of sensationalism, voyeurism and sentimentalism, potentials and restrictions inherent in specific representational techniques, modes and genres; cultural markets for poverty and precarity. Overall, the book suggests that analysis of poverty narratives requires an intersection of theoretical reflection and a close reading of texts.
Poverty and precarity have gained a new societal and political presence in the twenty-first century's advanced economies. This is reflected in cultural production, which this book discusses for a wide range of media and genres from the novel to reality television. With a focus on Britain, its chapters divide their attention between current representations of poverty and important earlier narratives that have retained significant relevance today.The book's contributions discuss the representation of social suffering with attention to agencies of enunciation, ethical implications of 'voice' and 'listening', limits of narratability, the pitfalls of sensationalism, voyeurism and sentimentalism, potentials and restrictions inherent in specific representational techniques, modes and genres; cultural markets for poverty and precarity. Overall, the book suggests that analysis of poverty narratives requires an intersection of theoretical reflection and a close reading of texts.
Barbara Korte,University of Freiburg,Germany; Frédéric Regard, Sorbonne, Paris, France.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.8.2014 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Culture & Conflict ; 5 |
| Verlagsort | Berlin/Boston |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 467 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie | |
| Schlagworte | Anglo-American Literature, general • Armut • Aufsatzsammlung • Englisch • English • English fiction • English fiction, History and criticism • European • FASZ.1 • General Cultural Studies • Geschichte 1800-2000 • Globalization • History • History and Criticism • Homers • Ilias • Irish • Kulturgeschichte • Literary criticism • Literatur • Literature • literature, precarity, social suffering • Poverty • Poverty & Homelessness • Poverty in literature • Poverty; literature, precarity, social suffering • Precarity • Prekariat • Scottish • Social p • Social problems in literature • Social Science • social suffering • SWC • Text • Welsh |
| ISBN-10 | 3-11-036793-9 / 3110367939 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-11-036793-5 / 9783110367935 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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