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Television and Precarity

Naturalist Narratives of Poor America

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Authors:
  1. Jasmin Humburg

    1. Norderstedt, Germany

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  • C?ontribution to the field of new poverty studies

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Jasmin Humburg
    Pages 1-16

  3. Theorizing Representations of Poverty

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Poverty and Class

      • Jasmin Humburg
      Pages 19-24

    3. Social Stratification and Social Mobility

      • Jasmin Humburg
      Pages 25-31

    4. Naturalist Narratives of Poverty

      • Jasmin Humburg
      Pages 33-91

  4. Watching Representations of Poverty

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Exploring Determinism

      • Jasmin Humburg
      Pages 95-170

    3. Infiltrating the Culture of Poverty

      • Jasmin Humburg
      Pages 171-240

    4. Embodying the Plot of Decline

      • Jasmin Humburg
      Pages 241-307

    5. Conclusions

      • Jasmin Humburg
      Pages 309-319

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 321-357
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About this book

Jasmin Humburg provides evidence of naturalist narrative strategies, tropes, and character variations in six contemporary American television series: The Wire, Tremé, Shameless, Ozark, Orange is the New Black and 2 Broke Girls. The author investigates how poverty is negotiated through classic literary naturalism and contemporary televisual articulations, and how the latter may have been influenced by the former in the age of the Great Recession. By connecting literary studies, television studies, and concepts of social mobility, this project contributes to the field of new poverty studies. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Norderstedt, Germany

    Jasmin Humburg

About the author

The AuthorJasmin Humburg earned her doctorate in American Studies from Universität Hamburg. She currently works as a translator, lecturer, and literary critic.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Television and Precarity

  • Book Subtitle: Naturalist Narratives of Poor America

  • Authors: Jasmin Humburg

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05660-3

  • Publisher: J.B. Metzler Stuttgart

  • eBook Packages: J.B. Metzler Humanities (German Language)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-476-05659-7Published: 07 March 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-476-05660-3Published: 06 March 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 357

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Literature, general, North American Literature, Fiction

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