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At Home on the Stage: Toward an Affective Geography of Gentrification and Eviction in U.S. Cities
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Authors/contributors
- Stretch, Cynthia (Author)
- Rys, Michiel (Editor)
- Philipsen, Bart (Editor)
Title
At Home on the Stage: Toward an Affective Geography of Gentrification and Eviction in U.S. Cities
Abstract
Spoken word performance addressing gentrification and eviction encodes and embodies increasingly abstract and bureaucratically obfuscated processes of racialized dispossession in U.S. cities. Developing tropes across three works about housing precarity are read as poets’ attempts to identify the antagonists behind the digital wall of finance capital. Whereas the interactions of housing-insecure people with and within the housing market generate socially devalued identities, spoken word’s emphasis on “authenticity” requires poets to stand up as and for themselves as they wish to be (seen). In so doing, poets attempt to connect with audiences in real time to locate or reconstitute a stance as agents, however provisionally.
Book Title
Literary Representations of Precarious Work, 1840 to the Present
Series
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics
Date
2021
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Place
Cham
Pages
111-128
ISBN
978-3-030-88174-0
Citation Key
stretchHomeStageAffective2021
Accessed
9/28/23, 2:39 PM
Short Title
At Home on the Stage
Language
en
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Citation
Stretch, C. (2021). At Home on the Stage: Toward an Affective Geography of Gentrification and Eviction in U.S. Cities. In M. Rys & B. Philipsen (Eds.), Literary Representations of Precarious Work, 1840 to the Present (pp. 111–128). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88174-0_7
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