In this book, Powell examines the ways that identities are
constructed in displacement narratives based on cases of eminent
domain, natural disaster, and civil unrest, attending specifically
to the rhetorical strategies employed as barriers and boundaries
intersect with individual lives. She provides a unique method to
understand how the displaced move within accepted and subversive
discourses, and how representation is a crucial component of that
movement. In addition, Powell shows how notions of human rights and
the "public good" are often at odds with individual well-being and
result in intriguing intersections between discourses of power and
discourses of identity. Given the ever-increasing numbers of
displaced persons across the globe, and the "layers of
displacement" experienced by many, this study sheds light on the
resources of rhetoric as means of survival and resistance during
the globally common experience of displacement.
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