Little Class: Aporophobia and Class Ascension in 21st‒Century Literature (Presentation)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14409/eltaco.11.22.e0197Keywords:
class ascension, aporophobia, contemporary literatures, neoliberalism, povertyAbstract
This article introduces the dossier for this issue of the journal, in which we aim to address the problem of social class in contemporary literatures through two key axes: class ascension and aporophobia. The former, also conceptualized as «class defection» highlights the persistence of symbolic inequalities beyond processes of social mobility and upward movement and reveals the reconfiguration of intellectual fields and the role of cognitive work within the neoliberal machinery. The latter examines the forms of systemic violence enacted through political imaginaries that project and institutionalize hatred or violence against various contemporary manifestations of material poverty —often produced by these very systems themselves.

















