Originally a concern primarily of social studies and economics, poverty has emerged as a significant thematic focus and analytical tool in literary and cultural studies in the last two decades. The "new poverty studies" are dedicated to analyzing representations of poverty and the poor in literature and the visual arts, in the news media and in social practices. They aim at exploring the frameworks of representation that impact the affective and ethical responses of audiences to disenfranchised groups such as the poor. The contributions to this volume focus on representations of poverty in the Anglophone postcolonial world, exploring, for example, contemporary discourses on poverty in the UK, filmic representations of Nairobi slums or the agency of the poor in literature from India.
The Pleasures and Horrors of Eating : The Cultural History of Eating in Anglophone Literature
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Darkness Subverted : Aboriginal Gothic in Black Australian Literature and Film
Katrin Althans
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Gendered (Re)Visions : Constructions of Gender in Audiovisual Media
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Whoever Controls Your Eyeballs Runs the World : Visualisierung von Kunst und Gewalt im Werk von Don DeLillo
Julia Apitzsch
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Unreliable Narration im dramatischen Monolog des Viktorianismus : Konzepte und Funktionen
Gislind Rohwer-Happe
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Rushing Into Floods : Staging the Sea in Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century English Drama
Gunda Windmüller
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Who's afraid of…? : Facets of Fear in Anglophone Literature and Film
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A Hundred Years of The Secret Garden : Frances Hodgson Burnett's Children's Classic Revisited
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Roots in the Air : Construction of Identity in Anglophone Israeli Literature
Nadezda Rumjanceva, Nadežda Rumjanceva
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Pride and Prejudice 2.0 : Interpretations, Adaptations and Transformations of Jane Austen's Classic
Hanne Birk, Marion Gymnich
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Exploited, Empowered, Ephemeral : (Re-)Constructions of Childhood in Neo-Victorian Fiction
Denise Burkhard
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