Poor Things

Poor Things

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Davis, Lennard J.
Duke University Press
EAN: 9781478059974
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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 living abject, violent lives in filthy and degrading conditions. In Poor Things, Lennard J. Davis labels this genre &quote;poornography&quote;: 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 to the poor accessing the means of publication, Davis suggests that the work should, at least for now, be done by &quote;transclass&quote; writers who were once poor and who can accurately represent poverty without relying on stereotypes and cliches. Only then can the lived experience of poverty be more fully realized.
EAN 9781478059974
ISBN 1478059974
Binding Ebook
Publisher Duke University Press
Publication date October 11, 2024
Language English
Country Uruguay
Authors Davis, Lennard J.