Identity and Power in Narratives of Displacement

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Katrina M. Powell

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

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In this book, Powell examines the ways that identities are constructed in displacement narratives based on cases of eminent domain, natural disaster, and civil unrest, attending specifically to the rhetorical strategies employed as barriers and boundaries intersect with individual lives. She provides a unique method to understand how the displaced move within accepted and subversive discourses, and how representation is a crucial component of that movement. In addition, Powell shows how notions of human rights and the "public good" are often at odds with individual well-being and result in intriguing intersections between discourses of power and discourses of identity. Given the ever-increasing numbers of displaced persons across the globe, and the "layers of displacement" experienced by many, this study sheds light on the resources of rhetoric as means of survival and resistance during the globally common experience of displacement.

Author Biography:

Katrina M. Powell is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing in the Department of English at Virginia Tech, USA

Release date NZ

June 16th, 2017

Author

Katrina M. Powell

Series

Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

Pages

210

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

1 Halftones, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white

ISBN-13

9781138305878

Product ID

26823699

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