Tom Mould

Overthrowing the Queen

Telling Stories of Welfare in America

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Produktbeschreibung

Overthrowing the Queen tackles perceptions of welfare recipients while proposing new approaches to the study of oral narrative that extends far beyond the study of welfare, poverty, and social justice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780253048035
• ISBN-10: 0253048036
• Artikelnr.: 59909505

Autorenporträt

Tom Mould is Professor of Anthropology and Folklore at Butler University. He is the author of Still, the Small Voice: Narrative, Personal Revelation, and the Mormon Folk Tradition, Choctaw Prophecy: A Legacy of the Future, and Choctaw Tales.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Section I: Welfare Legends: An American Tradition
     Chapter 1: Introduction
     Chapter 2: The Welfare System and Narrative Scholarship
     Chapter 3: Birth in a Nation
Section II: Insider Views: Aid Recipients' Stories
     Chapter 4: Origin Stories
     Chapter 5: Challenge Stories
     Chapter 6: Making Ends Meet and Achieving Success Stories
Section III: Public Debates: Clash of Cultures
     Chapter 7: Symbols and Stereotypes
     Chapter 8: Hard Workers and the Worthy Poor
     Chapter 9: Welfare Lore in Social Media
Section IV: Re-Envisioning Legends
     Chapter 10: Context as Creator of Tradition
     Chapter 11: Truth and Doubt in Contemporary Tradition
     Chapter 12: Overthrowing the Queen
Epilogue
Appendix
Notes
Sources Cited