Introduction: How American Literature Understands Poverty

Authors

Clare E. Callahan, Sacred Heart UniversityFollow
Joseph Entin, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Irvin Hunt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kinohi Nishikawa, Princeton University

Document Type

Peer-Reviewed Article

Publication Date

9-2022

Abstract

Together, the essays in this issue of American Literature stage what is at stake in how literature understands poverty, elucidating not only the problem of poverty but also, and especially, the problem of how we see it. To see poverty differently, they might conclude, is not only a matter of what we see. It is a matter of reflecting on how we see.

Comments

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Published in its final version as:

Callahan, C. E., Entin, J., Hunt, I., & Nishikawa. (2022). Introduction: How American literature understands poverty. American Literature, 94(3). Doi:10.1215/00029831-10084470

DOI

10.1215/00029831-10084470

Recommended Citation

Callahan, Clare E.; Entin, Joseph; Hunt, Irvin; and Nishikawa, Kinohi, "Introduction: How American Literature Understands Poverty" (2022). English Faculty Publications. 160.
https://digitalcommons.sacredheart.edu/eng_fac/160