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The Working Class And Twenty First Century British Fiction

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Author : Phil O'Brien
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-12-05

The Working Class And Twenty First Century British Fiction written by Phil O'Brien and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-05 with Literary Criticism categories.

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.

Common People

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Author : Kit de Waal
language : en
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
Release Date : 2019-05-01

Common People written by Kit de Waal and has been published by Unbound Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-01 with Social Science categories.

Working-class stories are not always tales of the underprivileged and dispossessed. Common People is a collection of essays, poems and memoir written in celebration, not apology: these are narratives rich in barbed humour, reflecting the depth and texture of working-class life, the joy and sorrow, the solidarity and the differences, the everyday wisdom and poetry of the woman at the bus stop, the waiter, the hairdresser. Here, Kit de Waal brings together thirty-three established and emerging writers who invite you to experience the world through their eyes, their voices loud and clear as they reclaim and redefine what it means to be working class. Features original pieces from Damian Barr, Malorie Blackman, Lisa Blower, Jill Dawson, Louise Doughty, Stuart Maconie, Chris McCrudden, Lisa McInerney, Paul McVeigh, Daljit Nagra, Dave O’Brien, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Anita Sethi, Tony Walsh, Alex Wheatle and more.

British Working Class Fiction

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Author : Roberto del Valle Alcalá
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-02-11

British Working Class Fiction written by Roberto del Valle Alcalá and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-11 with Literary Criticism categories.

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 Alcalá 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, Alcalá 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.

The Making Of The English Working Class

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Author : Edward Palmer Thompson
language : en
Publisher: IICA
Release Date : 1963

The Making Of The English Working Class written by Edward Palmer Thompson and has been published by IICA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Social Science categories.

Youth Of Darkest England

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Author : Troy Boone
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-08-29

Youth Of Darkest England written by Troy Boone and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-29 with Literary Criticism categories.

This book examines the representation of English working-class children — the youthful inhabitants of the poor urban neighborhoods that a number of writers dubbed "darkest England" — in Victorian and Edwardian imperialist literature. In particular, Boone focuses on how the writings for and about youth undertook an ideological project to enlist working-class children into the British imperial enterprise, demonstrating convincingly that the British working-class youth resisted a nationalist identification process that tended to eradicate or obfuscate class differences.

Home In British Working Class Fiction

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Author : Nicola Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-09

Home In British Working Class Fiction written by Nicola Wilson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-09 with Literary Criticism categories.

Home in British Working-Class Fiction offers a fresh take on British working-class writing that turns away from a masculinist, work-based understanding of class in favour of home, gender, domestic labour and the family kitchen. As Nicola Wilson shows, the history of the British working classes has often been written from the outside, with observers looking into the world of the inhabitants. Here Wilson engages with the long cultural history of this gaze and asks how ’home’ is represented in the writing of authors who come from a working-class background. Her book explores the depiction of home as a key emotional and material site in working-class writing from the Edwardian period through to the early 1990s. Wilson presents new readings of classic texts, including The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Love on the Dole and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, analyzing them alongside works by authors including James Hanley, Walter Brierley, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Buchi Emecheta, Pat Barker, James Kelman and the rediscovered ’ex-mill girl novelist’ Ethel Carnie Holdsworth. Wilson's broad understanding of working-class writing allows her to incorporate figures typically ignored in this context, as she demonstrates the importance of home's role in the making and expression of class feeling and identity.

Fatherhood And The British Working Class 1865 1914

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Author : Julie-Marie Strange
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-01-19

Fatherhood And The British Working Class 1865 1914 written by Julie-Marie Strange and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-19 with Family & Relationships categories.

A pioneering study of Victorian and Edwardian fatherhood, investigating what being, and having, a father meant to working-class people. Based on working-class autobiography, the book challenges dominant assumptions about absent or 'feckless' fathers, and reintegrates the paternal figure within the emotional life of families. Locating autobiography within broader social and cultural commentary, Julie-Marie Strange considers material culture, everyday practice, obligation, duty and comedy as sites for the development and expression of complex emotional lives. Emphasising the importance of separating men as husbands from men as fathers, Strange explores how emotional ties were formed between fathers and their children, the models of fatherhood available to working-class men, and the ways in which fathers interacted with children inside and outside the home. She explodes the myth that working-class interiorities are inaccessible or unrecoverable, and locates life stories in the context of other sources, including social surveys, visual culture and popular fiction.

The Working Classes In Victorian Fiction

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Author : P. J. Keating
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 1971-01-01

The Working Classes In Victorian Fiction written by P. J. Keating and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971-01-01 with English fiction categories.

Examines the presentation of the urban and industrial working classes in Victorian fiction. Considers the different types of working men and women who appear in fiction, the environments they are shown to inhabit and the use of phonetics to indicate the sound of working class voices.

Cloudstreet

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Author : Tim Winton
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 1992

Cloudstreet written by Tim Winton and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Fiction categories.

‘A fragmented, hilarious, crude, mystical soap opera. In a rich Australian idiom, Winton lets his characters rip against an evocation of Perth so intense you can smell it’ Sunday Telegraph Cloudstreet – a broken-down house of former glories on the wrong side of the tracks, a place teeming with memories of its own, a place of shudders and shadows and spirits. From separate catastrophes, two families flee to the city and find themselves sharing this great sighing structure and beginning their lives again from scratch. Together they roister and rankle in a house that begins as a roof over their heads and becomes a home for their hearts. In this fresh, funny novel, full of wonder and dreams, Tim Winton weaves the threads of lifetimes, of twenty years of shouting and fighting, laughing and grafting, into a story about acceptance and belonging. ‘Imagine Neighbours being taken over by the writing team of John Steinbeck and Gabriel García Márquez and you’ll be close to the heart of Winton’s impressive tale’ Time Out

Rosie Of The River

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Author : Catherine Cookson
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2001

Rosie Of The River written by Catherine Cookson and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Fiction categories.

When Fred suggests to his wife, Sally, that they take a boating holiday, she is filled with trepidation but nevertheless they set off. Sally's misgivings are soon justified as a series of disasters threaten to ruin their holiday.