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Representing Social Precarity in German Literature and Film
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"Precarity is everywhere now," sociologist Pierre Bourdieu declared almost thirty years ago. Not only declining middle-class standards of living, but also debt, drug addiction, housing and food insecurity, depression, and "deaths of despair" are now being recognized as symptoms of the downward pull of social precarity. Although these and similar ills have been attributed to neoliberal policies of deregulation, privatization, and willful neglect of the common good, precarization has accompanied the booms and busts of industrial modernity from its beginnings.
Representing Social Precarity in German Literature and Filmexplores how German and Austrian literature, film, and social history have engaged with social precarity, from the period of Romanticism and early industrialization to the present. The chapters in this volume deal with precarity as both an objective phenomenon reflected in literary and filmic representations and as a subjective phenomenon that gives these representations their particular shape. Representing Social Precarity in German Literature and Film opens new critical perspectives on diverse forms of lived precarity and their creative manifestations by reflecting on the history of capitalist modernity from the vantage points of weakness, vulnerability, marginality, impoverishment, and otherness.
Product details
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Edition:
- 1
- Number of Pages:
- 350
- Release Date:
- 2025-06-26
- Publication Date:
- 2025-06-26
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Languages:
- Original: English
- ISBN10:
- 1501391518
- ISBN13:
- 9781501391514
- GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
- [email protected]
- Weight:
- 441 g
- Height:
- 14 cm
- Width:
- 21.6 cm
- Thickness:
- 1.9 cm
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