Representing Poverty in the Anglophone Postcolonial World

Verena Jain-Warden, Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp, Verena Jain-Warden, Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp

• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9783847113201
• eBook ISBN: 9783847013204
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Originally a concern primarily of social studies and economics, poverty has emerged as a significant thematic focus and analytical tool in literary and cultural studies in the last two decades. The "new poverty studies" are dedicated to analyzing representations of poverty and the poor in literature and the visual arts, in the news media and in social practices. They aim at exploring the frameworks of representation that impact the affective and ethical responses of audiences to disenfranchised groups such as the poor. The contributions to this volume focus on representations of poverty in the Anglophone postcolonial world, exploring, for example, contemporary discourses on poverty in the UK, filmic representations of Nairobi slums or the agency of the poor in literature from India.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp: Introduction
• Body
• 1. The Ethics of Representing Poverty
• Barbara Korte: Mumbai's Slums on London's South Bank: Ethics and Aesthetics of Staging Poverty ˋGlobally'
• Katharina Engel: ˋPoverty Porn' in Spoken Word Poetry? Kate Tempest's Brand New Ancients
• Rainer Hillrichs: Slum Affirmation and Magic Neorealism in One Fine Day Films' Soul Boy
• 2. Intersecting Aspects of Poverty and Agency
• Devindra Kohli: The Relevance of the Transforming Image of Self-volitional Deprivation: R. K. Narayan's The Guide
• Verena Jain-Warden: Facing Loss – Downward Social Mobility in Lauren Beukes's Zoo City
• 3. Transforming Stereotypes, Rewriting Poverty Discourse
• Miriam Nandi: “Idle Poor and Lazy Natives?” – Re-Writing Stereotypes about the Global Poor
• Jan Alber: The Humorous Negotiation of Aboriginal Poverty: Busted out Laughing by Dot Collard and Alexis Wright's Carpentaria
• Vijaya John Kohli: Ignoring Poverty in Sociolinguistic Discourse: The Curious Case of “Indian English” as a Linguistic Concept
• 4. Spatial Representations of Poverty
• Miriam Gertzen: Space-situatedness and Localised Poverties in Recent Young Adult Dystopian Novels
• Ellen Grünkemeier: South African Townships – Narrating Poverty in Spatial Terms in Sindiwe Magona's Writing
• 5. Global and Local Displacements
• Katrin Berndt: Paradise Lost: Intersections of Material, Cultural, and Emotional Poverty in NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names
• Katrin Althans: Representations of Australian Refugee Experiences: Poverty or Bare Life?
• Marion Gymnich: Two Representations of Homelessness on British Television – Cathy Come Home and Call the Midwife
• Contributors