Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld Kalifa Dominique
Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld Kalifa Dominique Beggars, outcasts, urchins, waifs, prostitutes, criminals, convicts, madmen, fallen women, lunatics,…
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Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld Kalifa Dominique
Beggars, outcasts, urchins, waifs, prostitutes, criminals, convicts, madmen, fallen women, lunatics, degenerates--part reality, part fantasy, these are the grotesque faces that populate the underworld, the dark inverse of our everyday world. Although these images testify to undeniable social realities, the sordid lower depths make up a symbolic and social imaginary that reflects our fears and anxieties--as well as our desires.In Vice, Crime, and Poverty, Dominique Kalifa traces the untold history of the concept of the underworld and its representations in popular culture. Lurking in the mirror that we hold up to our society, they are our counterparts and our doubles, repelling us and yet offering the tantalizing promise of escape.
He examines how the myth of the lower depths came into being in nineteenth-century Europe, as biblical figures and Christian traditions were
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