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1 online resource (xxxii, 238 pages) |
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Critical insights |
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Critical insights.
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| Contents |
About this volume / Kimberly Drake -- Introduction: "Deprived of the same privilege" : on inequality / Kimberly Drake. -- Critical contexts: Caste : the engine that runs (ruins) India / Lucky Issar (essay discusses Arundhati Roy's novels The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness) -- Punishment, spirituality, and materialism in the anti-utopia / Roger Chapman (essay discusses Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novels Poor Folk, Notes from the Dead House, Winter Notes on Summer Impressions, Notes from the Underground, and Crime and Punishment) -- Leveling the playing field : cultural relativism and Inequality / Adam T. Bogar (essay discusses Kurt Vonnegut's novel The Sirens of Titan and short story "Harrison Bergeron") -- Structural inequality, labor exploitation, and the foundation of America / Jericho Williams (essay discusses Solomon Northup's slave narrative Twelve Years a Slave and Frederick Douglass' slave narrative My Bondage and My Freedom). -- |
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Critical readings: Racial classifications and crossing the color line / Almas Khan (essay discusses Nella Larsen's novel Passing -- Ideological control and human nature in the dystopian society / Boyarkina Iren (essay discusses George Orwell's novel 1984) -- The "Closet" and marginalized identities / Sonia Mae Brown (essay discusses James Baldwin's story "The Outing" and novel Giovanni's Room) -- White femininity and the Black female gaze : internalized oppression / Julie Prebel (essay discusses Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye) -- Not just any ol' Injun : the (re)appropriation and alteration of Native American stereotypes / Robyn Johnson (essay discusses Louise Erdrich's novel Tracks) -- Tracking wolves :a metaphor for cross-border inequality / Peter Arnds (essay discusses Cormac McCarthy's novel The Crossing) -- Historical trauma and the haunting of "Comfort Women" / Ji Nang Kim (essay discusses Nora Okja Keller's novel Comfort Woman and Yong Soon Min's Art Works) -- Dwelling in time : the representation of poverty on film / Andrew Bingham (essay discusses Pedro Costa's film series Letters from Fontainhas -- Immigrants, nationalism, and xenophobia in London / Önder Çakirtas (essay discusses Anders Lustgarten's play A Day at the Racists). -- Resources: Additional works on hte theme -- Bibliography -- About the editor -- Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
This volume explores some key texts in what one of the chapter authors, Jericho Williams, has called a subgenre of American literature: the literature of inequality. Much of early U.S. literature could fit into this category in a variety of ways. The settler colonies transformed themselves into a nation through rebellion against systemic tyranny, yet paid for this war through enslavement and the appropriation of American Indian land, perpetuating forms of inequality with which they were familiar. Enslavement is one example of labor exploitation, which has taken many other forms over the centuries, including indentured servitude, apprenticeships, sweatshops, prostitution, migrant or seasonal labor, and prison labor. While individuals have survived or escaped these systems, they are usually permanently marked by them and viewed thereafter as being unequal. The chapters in this volume examine works that focus on people who have been exploited, colonized, and disappeared as the result of various systems of inequality in the U.S. and elsewhere |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-220) and index |
| Notes |
Edition statement supplied by publisher |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 25, 2018) |
| Subject |
Equality in literature.
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Marginality, Social, in literature.
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Segregation in literature.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Equality in literature
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Marginality, Social, in literature
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Segregation in literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Drake, Kimberly, 1965- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781682176917 |
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1682176916 |
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