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The Price of Living (The Stories We Tell About the Poor)
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Product Details
Author:
S Shankar
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
264
Publisher:
Duke University Press (February 23, 2027)
Imprint:
Duke University Press
Release Date:
February 23, 2027
Language:
English
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13:
9781478039662
ISBN-10:
1478039663
Weight:
16oz
Dimensions:
6" x 9"
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List Price:
$31.95
Country of Origin:
United States
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Overview
In The Price of Living, S. Shankar investigates popular and global understandings of poverty through what he calls cultural fictions. Engaging powerful, public, invented stories about the poor, from the Bollywood classic Deewaar to the Parable novels of Octavia Butler, and drawing from thinkers like B. R. Ambedkar, Angela Davis, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Antonio Gramsci, Shankar explores depictions of destitution alongside narratives of poverty that present escape and resistance. Shankar urges a public humanities perspective on poverty through readings of novels and films from Africa, India, and the United States. Using humanistic methodologies that challenge social scientific and policy approaches, he unveils how poverty circulates in the cultural imaginary politically and morally, leading his argument to abolitionism. The Price of Living is a wide-ranging introduction to poverty discourse and an urgent call for poverty abolition.
