British Working-Class Fiction
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-04459-3 (ISBN)
Roberto del Valle Alcalá is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English, Uppsala University, Sweden.
1. Introduction: British Fiction and the Struggle Against Work
2. Between Capitalist Subsumption and Proletarian Independence: Alan Sillitoe, David Storey, and the Post-war Working Class
2.1. From Consensus to Antagonism, or, the Post-war Rebirth of Subjectivity
2.2. From the Factory to the Social: Alan Sillitoe’s Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and ‘The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner’
2.3. Capitalist Subjectivation in David Storey’s This Sporting Life
3. Reproductive Work and Working-class Resistance in Transition: Nell Dunn and Pat Barker
3.1. Desire and the Labour of Subjectivity in Nell Dunn’s Up the Junction and Poor Cow
3.2. Reproduction in Revolt: Biopolitics in Pat Barker’s Union Street
3.3. Prostitution, Death, and the Subversion of Life in Blow Your House Down
4. Proletarian Exodus and Resistance in James Kelman and Irvine Welsh
4.1. The Collapse of Measure: Postmodern Abstraction and Proletarian Flight in James Kelman
4.2. Beyond Civil Society: On Irvine Welsh’s Skagboys
5. Work in Crisis: Madness and (the Unworking of) Civilisation in Monica Ali and Joanna Kavenna
5.1. Nomad Bodies, Precarious Minds: On Monica Ali’s In the Kitchen
5.2. ‘Madness, or, the Absence of Work’: On Joanna Kavenna’s Inglorious
6. Conclusion: A Workless Future for British Fiction?
Erscheinungsdatum | 30.08.2017 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Gewicht | 295 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-04459-8 / 1350044598 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-04459-3 / 9781350044593 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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