Identity and Power in Narratives of Displacement

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-30587-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 315 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

In this book, Powell examines the ways that identities are constructed in displacement narratives based on cases of eminent domain, natural disaster, and civil unrest, attending specifically to the rhetorical strategies employed as barriers and boundaries intersect with individual lives. She provides a unique method to understand how the displaced move within accepted and subversive discourses, and how representation is a crucial component of that movement. In addition, Powell shows how notions of human rights and the "public good" are often at odds with individual well-being and result in intriguing intersections between discourses of power and discourses of identity. Given the ever-increasing numbers of displaced persons across the globe, and the "layers of displacement" experienced by many, this study sheds light on the resources of rhetoric as means of survival and resistance during the globally common experience of displacement.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Powell, Katrina M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprechwissenschaft, Rhetorik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Constructing Narratives of (National) Identity within Relocations 2. Reservations, Internments, and a Little Pink House: Linking U.S. Histories of Displacement with Human Rights 3. Surviving the (Un)Natural Disaster in New Orleans: Rhetorical Implications of Embracing "Refugee" 4. Buying Refugee Narratives: Sudanese Identity, Civil Unrest, and the Good Refugee 5. "Barriers and Boundaries": Mixed Identities and Multiple Displacements in Sri Lanka 6. Layers of Displacement: Discursive Mark(s) of Identity

Über Autor(innen)

Katrina M. Powell is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing in the Department of English at Virginia Tech, USA