Contemporary British Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Disenfranchisement
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-48367-9 (ISBN)
Alexander Beaumont is Lecturer in English Literature at York St John University, UK.
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
Erscheinungsdatum | 26.05.2016 |
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Zusatzinfo | VII, 239 p. |
Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
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Schlagworte | Contemporary fiction • Politics in Fiction • Twenty-First Century Literature |
ISBN-10 | 1-349-48367-2 / 1349483672 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-349-48367-9 / 9781349483679 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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