Deprivation in the Midst of Affluence

S. Subramanian ()
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Chapter Chapter 21 in Inequality and Poverty, 2019, pp 79-81 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract There are a number of ways in which poverty can be represented. The approach employed in the poverty-measurement literature is a particularly dry and unemotional one, in which the phenomenon is distilled into a set of real numbers. More immediately affecting representations are afforded by fictional treatments of poverty, by the instrument of photography, and by more or less intimate factual treatments of the subject. In this chapter, the representation of poverty in an affluent country such as the USA is considered, with particular emphasis on the great book titled Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, consisting of a text written by James Agee and photographs taken by Walker Evans.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-8185-0_21

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