Description: Poor Things : How Those With Money Depict Those Without It, Paperback by Davis, Lennard J., ISBN 1478031026, ISBN-13 9781478031024, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "For generations most of the canonical works that detail the lives of poor people have been created by rich or middle-class writers like Charles Dickens, John Steinbeck, or James Agee. This has resulted in overwhelming depictions of poor people as livingabject, violent lives in filthy and degrading conditions. In Poor Things, Lennard J. Davis labels this genre "poornography"-distorted narratives of poverty written by and for the middle and upper classes. Davis shows how poornography creates harmful and dangerous stereotypes that build barriers to social justice and change. To remedy this, Davis argues, poor people should write realistic depictions of themselves but because of representational inequality they cannot. Given the obstacles of the poor accessing the means of publication, Davis suggests that the work should, at least for now, be done by "transclass" writers who were once poor and who can accurately represent poverty without relying on stereotypes and clicheáIp1(Bs. Only then can the lived experience of poverty be more fully realized"--
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Book Title: Poor Things : How Those With Money Depict Those Without It
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Poor Things : How Those with Money Depict Those Without It
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Art & Politics, American / General, Modern / General
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2024
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 15.2 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Art
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Lennard J. Davis
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
