Download or read book The White Trash Menace and Hemispheric Fiction written by Ramn E. Soto-crespo and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the transnational circulation of "white trash" characters and fiction in popular and canonical literatures of the Americas.
Download or read book Love Language Place and Identity in Popular Culture written by María Ramos-García and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other explores the varied representations of Otherness in romance novels and other fiction with strong romantic plots. Contributors’ approaches range from sociolinguistics to cultural studies, and the texts analyzed are set on four continents, with particular emphasis on Caribbean and Atlantic islands. What all the essays have in common is the exploration of representations of the Other, be it in an inter-racial or inter-cultural relationship. Chapters are divided into two parts; the first examines place, travel, history, and language in 20th-century texts; while the second explores tensions and transformations in the depiction of Otherness, mainly in texts published in the early 21st century. This book reveals that even at the end of the 20th century, these texts display neocolonialist attitudes towards the Other. While more recent texts show noticeable changes in attitudes, these changes can often fall short, as stereotypes and prejudices are often still present, just below the surface, in popular novels. The understudied field of popular romance, in which the Other is frequently present as a love interest, proves to be a fruitful area in which to explore the potential and the realities of the treatment of Otherness in popular culture. Scholars of literature, communication, romance, and rhetoric will find this book particularly useful.
Download or read book Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction written by Hsu-Ming Teo and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how postmillennial Anglophone women writers use romantic narrativisations of history to explore, revise, repurpose and challenge the past in their novels, exposing the extent to which past societies were damaging to women by instead imagining alternative histories. The novelists discussed employ the generic conventions of romance to narrate their understanding of historical and contemporary injustice and to reflect upon women’s achievements and the price they paid for autonomy and a life of public purpose. The volume seeks, firstly, to discuss the work of revision or reparation being performed by romantic historical fiction and, secondly, to analyse how the past is being repurposed for use in the present. It contends that the discourses and genre of romance work to provide a reparative reading of the past, but there are limitations and entrenched problems in such readings.
Download or read book Grotesque Touch written by Amy King and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Amy K. King examines how violence between women in contemporary Caribbean and American texts is rooted in plantation slavery. Analyzing films, television shows, novels, short stories, poems, book covers, and paintings, King shows how contemporary media reuse salacious and stereotypical depictions of relationships between women living within the plantation system to confront its legacy in the present. The vestiges of these relationships--enslavers and enslaved women, employers and domestic servants, lovers and rivals--negate characters' efforts to imagine non-abusive approaches to power and agency. King's work goes beyond any other study to date to examine the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, ability, and nationality in U.S. and Caribbean depictions of violence between women in the wake of slavery.
Download or read book Not Quite White written by Matt Wray and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-03 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White trash. The phrase conjures up images of dirty rural folk who are poor, ignorant, violent, and incestuous. But where did this stigmatizing phrase come from? And why do these stereotypes persist? Matt Wray answers these and other questions by delving into the long history behind this term of abuse and others like it. Ranging from the early 1700s to the early 1900s, Not Quite White documents the origins and transformations of the multiple meanings projected onto poor rural whites in the United States. Wray draws on a wide variety of primary sources—literary texts, folklore, diaries and journals, medical and scientific articles, social scientific analyses—to construct a dense archive of changing collective representations of poor whites. Of crucial importance are the ideas about poor whites that circulated through early-twentieth-century public health campaigns, such as hookworm eradication and eugenic reforms. In these crusades, impoverished whites, particularly but not exclusively in the American South, were targeted for interventions by sanitarians who viewed them as “filthy, lazy crackers” in need of racial uplift and by eugenicists who viewed them as a “feebleminded menace” to the white race, threats that needed to be confined and involuntarily sterilized. Part historical inquiry and part sociological investigation, Not Quite White demonstrates the power of social categories and boundaries to shape social relationships and institutions, to invent groups where none exist, and to influence policies and legislation that end up harming the very people they aim to help. It illuminates not only the cultural significance and consequences of poor white stereotypes but also how dominant whites exploited and expanded these stereotypes to bolster and defend their own fragile claims to whiteness.
Download or read book White Trash written by Nancy Isenberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller A New York Times Notable and Critics’ Top Book of 2016 Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction One of NPR's 10 Best Books Of 2016 Faced Tough Topics Head On NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2016’s Great Reads San Francisco Chronicle's Best of 2016: 100 recommended books A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2016 Globe & Mail 100 Best of 2016 “Formidable and truth-dealing . . . necessary.” —The New York Times “This eye-opening investigation into our country’s entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant.” —O Magazine In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg upends history as we know it by taking on our comforting myths about equality and uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if occasionally entertaining—poor white trash. “When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win,” says Isenberg of the political climate surrounding Sarah Palin. And we recognize how right she is today. Yet the voters who boosted Trump all the way to the White House have been a permanent part of our American fabric, argues Isenberg. The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today's hillbillies. They were alternately known as “waste people,” “offals,” “rubbish,” “lazy lubbers,” and “crackers.” By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called “clay eaters” and “sandhillers,” known for prematurely aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds. Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America’s supposedly class-free society––where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics–-a widely popular movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that targeted poor whites for sterilization. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ’s Great Society; they haunt us in reality TV shows like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty. Marginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or near the center of major political debates over the character of the American identity. We acknowledge racial injustice as an ugly stain on our nation’s history. With Isenberg’s landmark book, we will have to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class as well.
Download or read book White Trash written by Annalee Newitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is devoted to exploring stereotypes about the social conditions of poor whites in the United States and comparing these stereotypes with the social reality.
Download or read book White Trash written by Gordon Rennie and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Greatest White Trash Love Story Ever Told written by Rhett Ellis and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Greatest White Trash Love Story Ever Told" is the story of a white trash man who loved a white trash woman with all his heart. It is the first of The White Trash Chronicles. Also included are "A War Story" and "The Key to the City."
Download or read book White Trash written by John King and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pour Ruby, jeune infirmière passionnée, l'hôpital est un microcosme où chacun à une histoire à raconter. Son supérieur, Jeffreys, s'investit corps et âme dans la gestion de l'établissement. Il méprise la populace, ses goûts et ses loisirs frustes. La mort inattendue d'un patient éveille des soupçons chez Ruby. La dévotion pour L'efficacité de Jeffreys ne cacherait-elle pas un secret terrifiant ?
Download or read book White Trash written by John King and published by Random House. This book was released on 2002 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Classic Tale Of Good Against Evil, John King'S New Novel Pits Nurse Against Consultant; A Working-Class Woman Against An Upper-Middle-Class Man. Ruby Is A Locally-Born Nurse, Who Enjoys Life To The Full, Lives In The Present And Likes To Find The Best In Everyone. For Her, The Hospital In Which She Works Is Society In Microcosm: A Chaotic, Exciting Landscape Of Work And Play Where Everyone Has A Story To Tell. For Mr Jeffries, The Consultant, However, The Patients He Attends And The Staff He Has To Deal With Are All Tarred With The Same Brush: An Ignorant, Lazy, Drunken, Violent, Drug-Crazed Rabble. White Trash. One Of His Main Responsibilities Is To Allocate Resources And Cut Down On Expenditure; What He Sees As Streamlining Is, In Effect, A Terrifying Policy Of Social Cleansing. Arrogant And Elitist, Jeffries Hankers After A Class System That Has Gone - But That He Wants Re-Established. When Joy Becomes Suspicious About The Death Of A Patient, A Clash Between The Two Is, Suddenly, Inevitable.
Download or read book White Trash written by Katie Carothers and published by Blue Beginnings Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHITE TRASH, from Blue Beginnings Publishing, is already in record-setting demand with the Community College system. Six colleges are teaching this powerful novel, a stinging expose of post-Cold War culture in Los Angeles. WHITE TRASH is the story of a family who slides into poverty when Sam Carey's company converts from nuclear weapons to garbage recycling. The Careys lose everything & move into the barrio with their El Salvadoran housekeeper. Then Sam's ingenious new business idea propels the family back into prosperity while saving an entire African animal species from extinction. WHITE TRASH is a brilliantly uncoventional novel, & Katie Carothers is a first-rate humorist. Wonderfully zany, containing dark & often stinging humor. WHITE TRASH will delight readers of the 1990s. Robert Gover, the author of THE ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR MISUNDERSTANDING, says of WHITE TRASH: "In this extraordinary first novel, a family who has prospered during the Cold War years faces overwhelming odds when husband Sam loses his high paying, defense-related job. Author Katie Carothers sweeps readers into the family's vortex of mounting anguish & shows us realities about life in the nineties which make this novel unforgettable." Backorder WHITE TRASH from Ingrams or Baker & Taylor, or directly from Publisher: Blue Beginnings Publ., 15333 Sherman Way, P.O. Box 304, Van Nuys, CA 91406. 818-894-0641.
Download or read book Nightmare written by Muriel Anderson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jake lives with his wife, Sally, and three small kids in East Texas during the Great Depression. They are poor white trash, but Jake does whatever it takes to provide for his family. They eat squirrels, rabbits, and lots of cornbread. The kids walk three miles to school where they must contend with the stuck-up kids who are better off than they are. Sally sits around reading detective and romance magazines. The two boys, Clarence and Jimmy, are typical boys--getting into fights, shooting out windows, and other mischief. Jake's 10 year-old daughter, Mildred, is a very intelligent girl who suffers from nightmares--nightmares about large purple cats, cows, and snakes crawling on the wall. Nightmare is an interesting look at what was probably a more-or-less typical share-cropper poor white trash family in 1937 East Texas. Muriel Miller Anderson was 10 years old herself in 1937--she grew up in a family of itinerant workers who traveled to Texas and California, following the crops. Nightmare is written from the perspective of someone who actually grew up during the Depression and personally experienced the people, mores, and desperation of the characters in this interesting novel. The last chapter is subtle and should be read several times to ensure the reader catches all of the nuances Muriel so subtly encloses.
Download or read book White Trash written by Jeffrey Foley and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Neobugarr n written by Ramón E. Soto-Crespo and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should we understand the bugarrón, a man who has sex with other men while regarding himself as heterosexual? Reaching beyond queer and gay studies, Ramón E. Soto-Crespo's research suggests that this paradoxical figure mutated into what he calls the "neobugarrón," a neoliberal market-oriented actor who used the traditional sexual practice as an optimizing strategy for manipulating the forces of globalization during the 1990s. In Neobugarrón: Heteroflexibility, Neoliberalism, and Latin/o American Sexual Practice, Soto-Crespo chronicles the cultural modifications of bugarrón, a distinct male-male sexual practice in Latin/o America and the Caribbean, during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Working with and against Foucault and Kinsey to examine diverse works from anthropology, literature, cinema, and social media, he investigates a wide array of bugarrón sources, ranging from previously underexamined multimedia to ethnographies, fiction, films, and beyond. These works constitute a neobugarrón archive and attest to a sexual practice currently metamorphosing on the cusp of extinction. Soto-Crespo's analysis challenges conventional understandings of "heteroflexible" sex between men and reveals a hitherto unnoticed transformation in neoliberal ecologies of bugarrón sexual practice.
Download or read book White Trash in a Trailer Park written by Randal Patrick and published by Eggman Pub. This book was released on 1995-08-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randy Patrick paints a unique Southern canvas with the story of a 16-year-old girl coming of age and dealing with teenage pregnancy, passive child abuse and affirmative action. Using language as his brush, he colors the pages with humor, warmth, and sensitivity. A rich array of gritty characters.
Download or read book American Magnitude written by Christa J. Olson and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes how imagery and rhetoric of pan-American grandeur from 1845 to 1950 used Latin America as a foil for creating US national identity and a particular American way of feeling.
