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Identity and Power in Narratives of Displacement

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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.

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ISBN: 9781138305878
Publication date: 16th June 2017
Author: Katrina M. Powell
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 210 pages
Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
Genres: Communication studies
Literature: history and criticism
Sociolinguistics
Biography: general
Jurisprudence and general issues
Asylum law
Social and political philosophy
Human rights, civil rights
Sociology
Ethnic studies