People-As-Garbage: A Metaphor We Live By
Storytelling as Composting in Six Novels
This work examines rhetoric that uses garbage and waste as a metaphor for people. This rhetoric took its modern form during the Industrial Revolution when urban reformers, religious leaders and other members of the middle classes garbagized the urban poor and working classes as a strategy of identity construction and social control. The American cultural revolutions of the 1960s and 70s brought challenges to this rhetoric. With heightened awareness about the environment as well as social injustice, people began to look at garbage as a source of insight into culture. Many North American novels published 1955-1995 use garbage as a central image…
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- ISBN: 978-3-659-19031-5
- EAN: 9783659190315
- Produktnummer: 36365028
- Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 228 S.
- Masse: H22.0 cm x B15.0 cm x D1.4 cm 358 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 358
Über den Autor
Cecily F. Brown, PhD. English Language and Literatures, University of Minnesota, 2000. Spanish Instructor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Minnesota.
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