Poor people / William T. Vollmann.
2007
362.5 V924p 2007
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Title
Poor people / William T. Vollmann.
Author
ISBN
0060878827
9780060878825
9780060878825
Imprint
New York : Ecco, c2007.
Language
English
Description
xx, 314, [120] p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
362.5 V924p 2007
System Control No.
(OCoLC)70668876
(OCoLC)70668876
(OCoLC)70668876
Summary
"Because I was bad in my last life." "Because Allah has willed it." "Because the rich do nothing for the poor." "Because the poor do nothing for themselves." "Because it is my destiny." These are just some of the answers to the simple yet groundbreaking question William T. Vollmann asks in cities and villages around the globe: "Why are you poor?" In the tradition of James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, writer Vollmann struggles to confront poverty in all its hopelessness and brutality, its pride and abject fear, its fierce misery and its quiet resignation. He allows the poor to speak for themselves, explaining the causes and consequences of their impoverishment in their own cultural, social, and religious terms. The result of Vollmann's fearless journey is a look at poverty unlike any other.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note
Self-definitions: I think I am rich
I think they are poor
Natalia's children
Everything you should do by yourself
The two mountains
Phenomena: Invisibility
Deformity
Unwantedness
Dependence
Accident-prone-ness
Paint
Numbness
Estrangement
Choices: Amortization
Crime without criminals
Snakehead fear
Hopes: "More aid, better directed"
The rider
Under the road
Dirty toilets
Placeholders: I know I am rich
I think you are rich
Money just goes to where it goes.
I think they are poor
Natalia's children
Everything you should do by yourself
The two mountains
Phenomena: Invisibility
Deformity
Unwantedness
Dependence
Accident-prone-ness
Paint
Numbness
Estrangement
Choices: Amortization
Crime without criminals
Snakehead fear
Hopes: "More aid, better directed"
The rider
Under the road
Dirty toilets
Placeholders: I know I am rich
I think you are rich
Money just goes to where it goes.
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