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The Aliens Within - Danger, Disease, and Displacement in Representations of the Racialized Poor

English · Paperback / Softback

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Discrimination, stigmatization, xenophobia, heightened securitization - fear and blaming of "aliens within" - characterize the world infected by COVID-19. Such fears have a long cultural history, however, particularly in connecting pathology with race, poverty, and migration. This volume explores theory and narratives of disease, danger, and displacement through the lenses of cultural, literary, and film studies, historical representation, ethnics studies, sociology and cultural geography, classics, music, and linguistics. Investigations range from, for example, illness discourse in the ancient classics to images of perilous intruders in the Age of Trump, from the Haitian Revolution and subsequent zombie stereotypes to current, problematic refugee resettlement in the US South and Greek islands, from the urban underworld in nineteenth-century sensation novels to ethnic women "on the stroll" in coronavirus times. The collection is organized into three thematically intertwined parts: Stigmatizing the Racialized Underclass; Pathologizing the Other; Constructing and Countering Collapse. It examines changing or recurrent aporias in tropes of belonging and exclusion, as well as the birthing of new forms of identity, agency, and countercultural expression.

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G. de Laforcade, Norfolk State University, USA, D. Steinand C. C. Waegner, Siegen University.


Product details

Assisted by Cathy Covell Waegner (Editor), Geoffroy De Laforcade (Editor), Daniel Stein (Editor)
Publisher De Gruyter
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.01.2024
 
EAN 9783111536651
ISBN 978-3-11-153665-1
No. of pages 358
Dimensions 155 mm x 21 mm x 230 mm
Weight 695 g
Illustrations 7 b/w ill.
Series Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series
ISSN
Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series, 80
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics

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