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Witnessing a New Kind of American Family: Recognizing the Work of Social Reproduction at a Time of Crisis in Brenda Ann Kenneally’s Upstate Girls
Witnessing a New Kind of American Family: Recognizing the Work of Social Reproduction at a Time of Crisis in Brenda Ann Kenneally’s Upstate Girls // Anglophonia – New Frontiers International Student Conference in English Studies
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 2019. (predavanje, nije recenziran, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni)
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Naslov
Witnessing a New Kind of American Family: Recognizing the Work of Social Reproduction
at a Time of Crisis in Brenda Ann Kenneally’s
Upstate Girls
Autori
Požgaj, Petra
Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni
Skup
Anglophonia – New Frontiers International Student Conference in English Studies
Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 09.05.2019. - 11.05.2019
Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje
Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran
Ključne riječi
social reproduction, family unit, neoliberalism, girl, photography
Sažetak
Focusing on Brenda Ann Kenneally's collection of photographs Upstate Girls: Unraveling Collar City (2018), which documents the life of a post-industrial community in the upstate New York, this paper observes a broader cultural shift in contemporary American representations of work – from the masculinized public sphere of waged work to the domestic sphere traditionally gendered as feminine and stigmatized due to the perceived unproductivity of household labor – in order to examine the figures it generates and explore their relationship to the shifts in the contemporary socio-economic context of the United States. Positioning Kenneally's work in the tradition of American documentary photographers taking the poor as their subjects, such as Jacob Riis and Dorothea Lange, the analysis of Upstate Girls focuses on the representations of the types of subjects which emerge in the wake of the neoliberal drive for the privatization of the costs of social reproduction. Recognizing the figure of the girl as a signifier of both crisis and potential, common to Upstate Girls and a number of cultural narratives which have appeared since the 1990s, this paper connects it to the rise of neoliberal policy and practice and explores how Kenneally's work challenges the individualizing drive behind this representational trend by documenting alternative family forms which emerge in the face of such individualization and situating them in the historical context of deindustrialization and a transformation of welfare.
Izvorni jezik
Engleski
Znanstvena područja
Filologija
