The Welfare Mother and the Fat Poor: Stereotypical Images and the Success Narrative in Sapphire's Push
This article explores how Sapphire's novel Push “(1996) operates and complicates stereotypical images about the poor—Welfare Mother and Fat Poor—for simultaneously propagating and criticizing the success narrative it employs. The article introduces the image of the Fat Poor, discusses Push“ as...
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Regensburg: Current objectives in postgraduate American studies c/o Universität Regensburg/Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
2013-05-01
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| Series: | Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://copas.uni-regensburg.de/index.php/copas/article/view/162 |
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