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Poor things : how those with money depict those without it / Lennard J. Davis.
Summary:
"For generations most of the canonical works that detail the lives of poor people have been created by rich or middle-class writers like Charles Dickens, John Steinbeck, or James Agee. This has resulted in overwhelming depictions of poor people as living abject, violent lives in filthy and degrading conditions. In Poor Things, Lennard J. Davis labels this genre 'poornography': distorted narratives of poverty written by and for the middle and upper classes. Davis shows how poornography creates harmful and dangerous stereotypes that build barriers to social justice and change. To remedy this, Davis argues, poor people should write realistic depictions of themselves but because of representational inequality they cannot. Given the obstacles of the poor accessing the means of publication, Davis suggests that the work should, at least for now, be done by 'transclass' writers who were once poor and who can accurately represent poverty without relying on stereotypes and clich©♭s. Only then can the lived experience of poverty be more fully realized"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781478031024
- ISBN: 1478031026
- ISBN: 9781478026747
- ISBN: 147802674X
- Physical Description: xii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, [2024]
- Copyright: ©2024.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-278) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Preface What It's All About? -- Introduction Scenes from a Life and from Lives -- Why Me? -- How to Read This Book and How the Lives of the Poor Have Been Read, or, Why You? -- The Problem of Representing the Poor -- Transclass: Endo- and Exo-writers -- Biocultural Myths of the Poor Body -- Female Sex Workers -- The Encounter, or, the Object Talks Back -- They Got It Right Now? -- What Is to Be Done? Endings and Beginnings.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emily Carr University of Art + Design | PN56 .P56 D385 2024 (Text) | 30245334 | Book | Volume hold | Checked out | 2025-04-11 |