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Inequality, Poverty and Precarity in Contemporary American Culture on Hardback by Sieglinde Lemke
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This book analyzes the discourse generated by pundits, politicians, and artists to examine how poverty and the income gap is framed through specific modes of representation. Set against the dichotomy of the structural narrative of poverty and the opportunity narrative, Lemke's modified concept of precarity reveals new insights into the American situation as well as into the textuality of contemporary demands for equity. Her acute study of a vast range of artistic and journalistic texts brings attention to a mode of representation that is itself precarious, both in the modern and etymological sense, denoting both insecurity and entreaty. With the keen eye of a cultural studies scholar her innovative book makes a necessary contribution to academic and popular critiques of the social effects of neoliberal capitalism.

Author Biography:

Sieglinde Lemke is Senior Professor of English at the University of Freiburg, Germany and a permanent Fellow at the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at Harvard University, USA. She is the author of Primitivist-Modernism: Black Origins of Transatlantic Modernism (1996) and Vernacular Matters in American Literature (Palgrave, 2010). She received her PhD from the Free University of Berlin, Germany.
Release date NZ
December 19th, 2016
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  • Professional & Vocational
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Illustrations
7 Illustrations, black and white; IX, 176 p. 7 illus.
Pages
176
Dimensions
148x210x18
ISBN-13
9781137603418
Product ID
25701581

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