Inequality, Poverty and Precarity in Contemporary American Culture

Palgrave Macmillan
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This book analyzes the discourse generated by pundits, politicians, and artists to examine how poverty and the income gap is framed through specific modes of representation. Set against the dichotomy of the structural narrative of poverty and the opportunity narrative, Lemke's modified concept of precarity reveals new insights into the American situation as well as into the textuality of contemporary demands for equity. Her acute study of a vast range of artistic and journalistic texts brings attention to a mode of representation that is itself precarious, both in the modern and etymological sense, denoting both insecurity and entreaty. With the keen eye of a cultural studies scholar her innovative book makes a necessary contribution to academic and popular critiques of the social effects of neoliberal capitalism.


  • | Author: Sieglinde Lemke
  • | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • | Publication Date: Dec 19, 2016
  • | Number of Pages: 185 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Hardcover/Social Science
  • | ISBN-10: 1137603410
  • | ISBN-13: 9781137603418
Author:
Sieglinde Lemke
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date:
Dec 19, 2016
Number of pages:
185 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Hardcover/Social Science
ISBN-10:
1137603410
ISBN-13:
9781137603418