Identity and Power in Narratives of Displacement EPUB
by Katrina M. Powell
Part of the Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication series
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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.
She provides a unique method to understand how the displaced move within accepted and subversive discourses, and how representation is a crucial component of that movement.
In addition, Powell shows how notions of human rights and the "public good" are often at odds with individual well-being and result in intriguing intersections between discourses of power and discourses of identity.
Given the ever-increasing numbers of displaced persons across the globe, and the "layers of displacement" experienced by many, this study sheds light on the resources of rhetoric as means of survival and resistance during the globally common experience of displacement.
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- Pages:210 pages, 1 Halftones, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:11/02/2015
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:210 pages, 1 Halftones, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:11/02/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9781317539032
