Lennard J. Davis

Poor Things

How Those with Money Depict Those without It

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Produktbeschreibung

Lennard J. Davis critiques literature written by the middle and upper classes that depict the poor through harmful stereotypes and argues that writers who were once poor are best positioned to write about the lived experience of poverty.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9781478031024
• ISBN-10: 1478031026
• Artikelnr.: 70011936

Autorenporträt

Lennard J. Davis

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. What It’s All About?  ix
Introduction. Scenes from a Life and from Lives  1
Interchapter 1. Why Me?  21
1. How to Read This Book and How the Lives of the Poor Have Been Read, or
Why You? 25
2. The Problem of Representing the Poor  42
3. Transclass: Endo- and Exo-writers  70
4. Biocultural Myths of the Poor Body  110
5. Female Sex Workers  153
6. The Encounter, or, the Object Talks Back  170
Interchapter 2. They Got It Right Now?  205
Conclusion. What Is to Be Done? Endings and Beginnings  219
Notes  231
Bibliography  253
Index