Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Postcolonial World

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46565-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 215, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 630 g

Reihe: Cross/Cultures

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Schmidt-Haberkamp, Barbara

Gymnich, Marion

Schneider, Klaus P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Postkoloniale Literaturen in Englisch, Englische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Über Autor(innen)

Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp is Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Bonn University (Germany). Her main areas of research are Postcolonial Studies and eighteenth-century British literature and culture.

Marion Gymnich is Professor of English Literature and Culture at Bonn University (Germany). Her research interests include British literature (19th century - present), gender studies and narratology. She is Deputy Speaker of the Cluster of Excellence ‘Beyond Slavery and Freedom’.

Klaus P. Schneider is Professor of Applied English Linguistics at the University of Bonn. His current research focuses on pragmatic variation, pragmatic competence, metapragmatics, and language use conventions in and across native, second and foreign language varieties of English.