The Aliens Within : : Danger, Disease, and Displacement in Representations of the Racialized Poor / / ed. by Geoffroy de Laforcade, Daniel Stein, Cathy C. Waegner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Adamik, Verena,; Allende Goitía, Noel,; Brisgone, Regina E.,; Gardner, Hunter H.,; Kampragkos, Chrysovalantis,; Kurjatto-Renard, Patrycja,; Laforcade, Geoffroy de,; Laws, Page R.,; Lee Robinson, Briana,; Martanovschi, Ludmila,; Metzger, David,; Mihăilescu, Dana,; Ronee Washington, Adrienne,; Rozga, Michele E.,; Ryniker, Sarah,; Stein, Daniel,; Waegner, Cathy C.,
• HerausgeberIn: Laforcade, Geoffroy de,; Stein, Daniel,; Waegner, Cathy C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series , 80
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VII, 358 p.)

Discrimination, stigmatization, xenophobia, heightened securitization – fear and blaming of "aliens within" – characterize the world infected by COVID-19. Such fears have a long cultural history, however, particularly in connecting pathology with race, poverty, and migration. This volume e...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• The Aliens Within: Danger, Disease, and Displacement in Representations of the Racialized Poor
• Danger: Stigmatizing the Racialized Underclass
• Bong Joon Ho Meets Richard Wright: Spatialized Poverty in The Host and Parasite or ‘The Koreans Who Lived Underground’
• “Holes Swarming with Human Beings”: Racing the Urban Underclass in the Antebellum City Mystery Novel
• The Black Body as Embodied Sound: Musicking as Personal and Communal Agency against the Othering of the Lettered Gaze in Puerto Rico in the Early Twentieth Century
• Representations of the “Aliens Within”: Romanian Jews and Roma in Radu Jude’s Cinema
• Alien Horrors: Lovecraft and the Racialized Underclass in the Age of Trump
• Disease: Pathologizing the Other
• Bounding Boukman: The Diseasing of Haitian Bodies in Representations of Race and Culture, from Zombies to Disaster Capitalism
• De-Pathologizing Diversity: A Critical Analysis of Racialized Discourses of Difference and Deviance in The Black Border and the Imperative of Reframing Approaches to Linguistic Variation
• Sowing the Seeds: Illness as Social Imbalance and Instrument of Social Change in Octavia Butler’s Speculative Fiction
• Aliens Without and Within: Abjection from Tetter to Tumor in Toni Morrison’s Novels
• African American Women and Stigma: Reactions to Medical Targeting for HIV and COVID-19
• Displacement: Constructing and Countering Collapse
• Spilling Over: Morality and Epidemiology in Ancient and Contemporary Contexts
• Socrates in the City of Bones: Plato’s Republic and August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean
• Displacement and Discipline: Refugees and the Unemployed in Living and Public Spaces in Greece
• Resettled Refugees in the American South: Discourses of Victimization and Transgression in Clarkston, Georgia
• Making the Beams of Architectural Poetry out of the Rubble of Displacement: Czesław Miłosz, Taha Muhammad Ali, and the Lyric of Constructed World Citizenry
• Notes on Contributors
• Index