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Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those without It
By
Lennard J. Davis
Lennard J. Davis
Lennard J. Davis is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois Chicago and the author of many books, including
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Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-1-4780-5997-4
Publication date:
2024
Book Chapter
They Got It Right Now?
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Published:October 2024
This interchapter looks at four books about poverty written in recent years. These are J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy, Dorothy Allison’s Bastard out of Carolina, Justin Torres’s We the Animals, and Joseph Earl Thomas’s Sink. The only overtly political book is Vance’s right-wing screed. The other books fit into the paradigm of exo-writers who are essentially conveying personal experience rather than producing poverty porn.
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