UID:
almahu_9949385916302882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781003007913
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1003007910
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9781000763003
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1000763005
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9781000763287
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1000763285
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9781000763140
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1000763145
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 40
Content:
The Working Class and Twenty-First-Century British Fiction looks at how the twenty-first-century British novel has explored contemporary working-class life. Studying the works of David Peace, Gordon Burn, Anthony Cartwright, Ross Raisin, Jenni Fagan, and Sunjeev Sahota, the book shows how they have mapped the shift from deindustrialisation through to stigmatization of individuals and communities who have experienced profound levels of destabilization and unemployment. O'Brien argues that these novels offer ways of understanding fundamental aspects of contemporary capitalism for the working class in modern Britain, including, class struggle, inequality, trauma, social abjection, racism, and stigmatization, exclusively looking at British working-class literature of the twenty-first century.
Note:
Introduction: Class, Culture, Politics -- Part One: Mapping Deindustrialisation -- Chapter One: David Peace and the Strike Novel: Conflict, History, Knowledge -- Chapter Two: Gordon Burn and Working-Class Nostalgia: Region, Form, Commodification -- Chapter Three: Anthony Cartwright and the Deindustrial Novel: Realism, Place, Class -- Part Two: Resisting Demonisation -- Chapter Four: Ross Raisin and Class Mourning: Masculinity, Work, Precarity -- Chapter Five: Jenni Fagan and the Revolting Class: Gender, Stigma, Resistance -- Chapter Six: Sunjeev Sahota and the Racialised Worker: Class, Race, Violence -- Conclusion: Class Matters.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 0367441489
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367441487
Language:
English
Keywords:
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003007913
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