Contemporary British Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Disenfranchisement [electronic resource] : Freedom and the City /
Beaumont, A.author.
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Machine generated contents note: -- 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 Passion3.Rave to the Grave: Hanif Kureishi and the Failure of Left Culturalism4.Politics is Over: Flexibility and Freedom in J.G. Ballard's Late DystopiasPART II: LOCATING URBAN CULTURE IN TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY BRITISH FICTION5.The New Culture Wars: Neo/Liberal Pedagogy in Ian McEwan's Saturday and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go6.Placing Politics: Home and the Right to Habitation in Monica Ali's Brick Lane and Zadie Smith's NW7.Coda: The Postcultural City and the Postculturalist LeftBibliographyIndex.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
British literature.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature—History and criticism.
Fiction.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Literary History.
Fiction.