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Inequality, poverty and precarity in contemporary American culture /

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Inequality, poverty and precarity in contemporary American culture /

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Sieglinde Lemke

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Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction; Precarity or Precariousness?; The Design of This Book; Notes; Chapter 2: Discourse: The Great Inequality Debate; A Genealogy of the Debate; Notes; Chapter 3: The Documentary: Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed and David Shipler's The Working Poor; Making the Invisible Visible: Precariousness; Narrative Strategies to Generate Outrage; From Visibility to Action; From Blame to Shame; Notes; Chapter 4: The Icon: Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother; The Hazard of Voyeurism; The Contemplative Migrant and the Power of the Gaze; Notes

Chapter 5: The Precarious Gaze: Contemporary Documentary Photography by Jeff Wall and Tom StoneRe:Connect; In:Visible; Notes; Chapter 6: The Nation: American Exceptionalism in Our Time; A Plea on Behalf of the Precariat and the Nation; Notes; Chapter 7: Conclusion: Precarity; Notes; Index

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This book analyses 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

Inequality, poverty and precarity in contemporary American culture.

9781137603418

Equality-- United States

Popular culture-- United States

Poverty-- United States

United States, Economic conditions

United States, Social conditions

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Lemke, Sieglinde

Ohio Library and Information Network

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