Description
| Product ID: | 9781032239286 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature |
| Title: | The Working Class and Twenty-First-Century British Fiction |
| Subtitle: | Deindustrialisation, Demonisation, Resistance |
| Authors: | Author: Phil O'Brien |
| Page Count: | 184 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Social classes, Social classes, United Kingdom, Great Britain, English, 21st century |
| Description: | Phil O'Brien argues that the novels explored in this work 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-12-13 |
