About the Author

Sarah Robertson is senior lecturer in American literature at the University of the West of England, Bristol. She has written extensively about southern poor whites across several publications and has published essays on Katherine Anne Porter and William Faulkner. She is author of The Secret Country: Jayne Anne Phillips and the Cryptic Evocation of a Region.

Reviews

Sarah Robertson's engaged and engaging Poverty Politics restores class and economics to their rightful place at the forefront of any understanding of southern literature and visual culture. In a series of smartly argued chapters ranging across travel writing, photography, life-writing, literature, and eco-writing, Robertson o-ffers a trenchant analysis of how the workings of global capitalism and economic policies have crucially shaped narratives about--and created by--poor white southerners. An invaluable book for anyone interested in the literatures, history, sociology, and cultures of the modern US South.--Brian Ward, professor in American studies at Northumbria University