Identity and Power in Narratives of Displacement
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 25, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781138846944
Description: "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."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Source title: Identity and Power in Narratives of Displacement (Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication)