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Animal’s Eyes: Spectacular Invisibility and the Terms of Recognition in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People

2013; University of Manitoba Press; Volume: 46; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/mos.2013.0034

1925-5683

Andrew Mahlstedt,

Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies

Dominant narratives of poverty in the global south exacerbate the invisibility of the marginalized poor, blinding observers to all but a spectacle of abject destitution. Paying attention to narrative and the question of visibility in the context of recent globalization, this essay considers how Animal’s People represents disempowerment without disempowering.