Alexander Beaumont

Contemporary British Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Disenfranchisement

Freedom and the City

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Produktbeschreibung

By examining the representation of urban space in contemporary British fiction, this book argues that key to the political left's strategy was a model of action which folded politics into culture and elevated disenfranchisement to the status of a political principle.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-48367-9
• 2015 edition
• Seitenzahl: 239
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781349483679
• ISBN-10: 1349483672
• Artikelnr.: 45076175

Autorenporträt

Alexander Beaumont is Lecturer in English Literature at York St John University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: 'What We Need Now...' PART I: IDENTIFYING THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF DISENFRANCHISEMENT 2. Resistance and Rationalisation: Exile and the Inner Cities in Jeanette Winterson's The Passion 3. Rave to the Grave: Hanif Kureishi and the Failure of Left Culturalism 4. Politics is Over: Flexibility and Freedom in J.G. Ballard's Late Dystopias PART II: LOCATING URBAN CULTURE IN TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY BRITISH FICTION 5. The New Culture Wars: Neo/Liberal Pedagogy in Ian McEwan's Saturday and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go 6. Placing Politics: Home and the Right to Habitation in Monica Ali's Brick Lane and Zadie Smith's NW 7. Coda: The Postcultural City and the Postculturalist Left Bibliography Index

Rezensionen

"Beaumont ultimately provides a timely, accessible and highly engaging analysis of the battle between left culturalism and Thatcherism, and its subsequent influence on contemporary British literature. ... The wide-ranging and interdisciplinary nature of the study ensures the work will be essential reading to cultural theorists and literary researchers alike." (Kristian Shaw, English Studies, Vol. 97 (7), 2016)