Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 192 p)
Ausgabe:
2014
ISBN:
9781474273770
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9781474273763
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9781474273756
Inhalt:
"British Fiction and the Struggle Against Work offers an account of British literary responses to work from the 1950s to the onset of the financial crisis of 2008/9. Roberto del Valle Alcal ̀argues that throughout this period, working-class writing developed new strategies of resistance against the social discipline imposed by capitalist work. As the latter becomes an increasingly pervasive and inescapable form of control and as its nature grows abstract, diffuse, and precarious, writing about it acquires a new antagonistic quality, producing new forms of subjective autonomy and new imaginaries of a possible life beyond its purview. By tracing a genealogy of working-class authors and texts that in various ways defined themselves against the social discipline imposed by post-war capitalism, this book analyses the strategies adopted by workers in their attempts to identify and combat the source of their oppression. Drawing on the work of a wide range of theorists including Deleuze and Guattari, Giorgio Agamben and Antonio Negri, Alcal ̀offers a systematic and innovative account of British literary treatments of work. The book includes close readings of fiction by Alan Sillitoe, David Storey, Nell Dunn, Pat Barker, James Kelman, Irvine Welsh, Monica Ali, and Joanna Kavenna."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781474273749
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Del Valle Alcalá, Roberto, 1983 - British working-class fiction London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016 ISBN 1474273742
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781474273749
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Anglistik
Schlagwort(e):
Englisch
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Arbeiterliteratur
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Geschichte 1950-2008
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Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781474273770
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