{"product_id":"representing-social-precarity-in-german-literature-and-film-9781501391477","title":"Representing Social Precarity in German Literature and Film","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUsing Germany as a national case study, this volume examines the historical genesis of precarity, its evolution from 19th-century industrial modernity to the present, and its reflections and reconfigurations in artistic production, in particular with relation to work, gender, and sexuality.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Precarity is everywhere now,\" sociologist Pierre Bourdieu declared almost thirty years ago. Not only declining middle-class standards of living, but also debt, drug addiction, housing and food insecurity, depression, and \"deaths of despair\" are now being recognized as symptoms of the downward pull of social precarity. Although these and similar ills have been attributed to neoliberal policies of deregulation, privatization, and willful neglect of the common good, precarization has accompanied the booms and busts of industrial modernity from its beginnings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRepresenting Social Precarity in German Literature and Film \u003c\/i\u003eexplores how German and Austrian literature, film, and social history have engaged with social precarity, from the period of Romanticism and early industrialization to the present. The chapters in this volume deal with precarity as both an objective phenomenon reflected in literary and filmic representations and as a subjective phenomenon that gives these representations their particular shape. \u003ci\u003eRepresenting Social Precarity in German Literature and Film\u003c\/i\u003e opens new critical perspectives on diverse forms of lived precarity and their creative manifestations by reflecting on the history of capitalist modernity from the vantage points of weakness, vulnerability, marginality, impoverishment, and otherness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSophie Duvernoy \u003c\/b\u003eholds a PhD in German from Yale University, USA, and is a translator in Berlin, Germany. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eKarsten Olson\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer of German Studies at the University of North Carolina Asheville, USA. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eUlrich Plass \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Letters and German Studies at Wesleyan University, USA.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50391562813714,"sku":"9781501391477","price":142.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_977c51b2-8124-477e-b0c0-aba44df386f3.jpg?v=1728964085","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/representing-social-precarity-in-german-literature-and-film-9781501391477","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}