Identity and Power in Narratives of Displacement (Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication)

Katrina M. Powell

ISBN 10: 1138846945 / ISBN 13: 9781138846944

Published by Routledge 2015-02-25, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Identity and Power in Narratives of Displacement (Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication)
• Publisher: Routledge 2015-02-25
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138846945
• ISBN 13: 9781138846944
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Katrina M. Powell is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing in the Department of English at Virginia Tech, USA