Katie Beswick

Slags on Stage

Class, Sex, Art and Desire in British Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Slags on Stage weaves cultural analysis with poetry and art criticism to explore the concept of the 'slag' and its place in contemporary British-English culture. The book traces the etymology of the word slag through the 20th and into the 21st century, thinking through the ways 'slag' speaks to issues of class, sex and desire.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9780367417109
• ISBN-10: 0367417103
• Artikelnr.: 71850120

Autorenporträt

Katie Beswick is a writer and academic. She is Programme Director for the BA Arts Management at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Affect and Synasthesia: An Introduction
Part One. Cultures of slag
1. Class, Sex, Desire
2. You Slag - Vulnerability, Interpellation and Twentieth Century Womanhood
3. The Slag, The Bitch and the Wardrobe - The Slag and Pleasure in Popular
Culture
Part Two. Slaggy art
4. Tracey Emin. Slaggy Endurance in Why I never Became a Dancer
5. Kelly Green. Abject Heterosexuality in CHAV and SLAG
6. Cash Carraway. Mistrust and Difficulty in Skint Estate and Refuge Woman
7. Michaela Coel. Recognition and Class Solidarity in I May Destroy You
and Chewing Gum Dreams
8. Eirini Kartsaki. Weirding the Slag in Herpes
What Women Want: A (kind of) Conclusion