عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
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IR
Number
482T
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION OR PRODUCTlON
Country of publication
IR
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Recognizing the Poor: Invisibility, Immobility, and Narrative under Globalization
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
;supervisor: Nixon, Robert
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
The University of Wisconsin - Madison: United States -- Wisconsin
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
: 2012
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
228 pages
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Body granting the degree
, The University of Wisconsin - Madison: United States -- Wisconsin
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Recognizing the poor is double-edged. In one sense, the poor are "marginalized," invisible to the social and political recognition that might ensure equal access to opportunities, so their fight is to be seen, to be recognized. In another sense, recognizing the poor may entail seeing what we expect to see--destitution, misery, abjection. We recognize what we already know, without realizing the unconscious biases and assumptions of prior knowledge. Narratives that fit our expectations fail to critique habituated systems of power and authority, and so participate in marginalization.How do we represent disempowerment without disempowering? While the question of how ethically to represent the poor has deep historical roots, it is particularly pressing under the weight of recent globalization. The dominant narrative of globalization asserts that people, ideas, and capital are increasingly fluid and mobile. The danger of this narrative is that it makes invisible the immobility that defines the poor, while it fortifies neoliberalism's fiction of endless upward mobility through blind faith in ideas of development. Reading Indra Sinha's Animal's People , Mia Couto's The Last Flight of the Flamingo , Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star , and Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost , this study examines narratives that force us to recognize--to see, but also to re-think--those invisible to globalization's grand narrative, the marginalized poor in the global South.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Comparative literature
Modern literature
Latin American literature
African literature
Canadian literature
British and Irish literature
South Asian Studies
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
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Sinha
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Indra
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Couto
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Mia
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Lispector
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Clarice
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Ondaatje
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Michael
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Mozambique
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Brazil
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Environment
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Globalization
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Lusophone
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Narrative
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Postcolonial
Subject Term
The poor
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Mahlstedt, Andrew
PERSONAL NAME - SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITY
Nixon, Robert, supervisor
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Country
ایران
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