| Description |
1 online resource (xxxii, 238 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Critical insights |
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Gale eBooks
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Critical insights.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
This book of essays addresses the theme of inequality and includes critical readings in classic and contemporary works. |
| Subject |
Equality in literature.
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Marginality, Social, in literature.
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Segregation in literature.
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| Added Author |
Drake, Kimberly, 1965- editor.
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Gale (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9781682176917 (electronic book) |
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9781682176900 |
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