Inequality, Poverty and Precarity in Contemporary American Culture

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

This book analyzes the discourse generated by pundits, politicians, and artists to examine how poverty and the income gap is framed through specific modes of representation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-12-19
Mått:148 x 210 x 15 mm
Vikt:363 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:176
Upplaga:16001
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137603418

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Sieglinde Lemke is Senior Professor of English at the University of Freiburg, Germany and a permanent Fellow at the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at Harvard University, USA. She is the author of Primitivist-Modernism: Black Origins of Transatlantic Modernism (1996) and Vernacular Matters in American Literature (Palgrave, 2010). She received her PhD from the Free University of Berlin, Germany.

Innehållsförteckning

.Introduction.-.1. Discourse: The Great Inequality Debate.-.2. The Documentary: Barbara Ehreneich's Nickel and Dimed and David Shipler's The Working Poor.-.3. The Icon: Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother.-.4. The Precarious Gaze: Contemporary Documentary Photography by Jeff Wall and Tom Stone.-.5. The Nation: American Exceptionalism in Our Time.-.Conclusion: Precarity.