Title:
Inequality / editor, Kimberly Drake, Scripps College, California.
Author:
Drake, Kimberly, 1965- editor.
Publication Information:
Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2018]
©2018
Call Number:
PN3352.E68 I54 2018
Abstract:
This book of essays addresses the theme of inequality and includes critical readings in classic and contemporary works.
Edition:
[First edition].
ISBN:
9781682176900
Series:
Critical insights
Critical insights.
Physical Description:
xxxii, 238 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents:
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 -- 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.
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