Katrina M Powell

Identity and Power in Narratives of Displacement

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Powell examines the ways that identities are constructed in displacement narratives based on cases of eminent domain, natural disaster, and civil unrest, attending specifically to the rhetorical strategies employed as barriers and boundaries intersect with individual lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9781138305878
• ISBN-10: 1138305871
• Artikelnr.: 57054864

Autorenporträt

Katrina M. Powell is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing in the Department of English at Virginia Tech, USA

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Constructing Narratives of (National) Identity within
Relocations 2. Reservations, Internments, and a Little Pink House: Linking
U.S. Histories of Displacement with Human Rights 3. Surviving the
(Un)Natural Disaster in New Orleans: Rhetorical Implications of Embracing
"Refugee" 4. Buying Refugee Narratives: Sudanese Identity, Civil Unrest,
and the Good Refugee 5. "Barriers and Boundaries": Mixed Identities and
Multiple Displacements in Sri Lanka 6. Layers of Displacement: Discursive
Mark(s) of Identity