"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...

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Main Author:	O'Brien, Phil 1980- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY Routledge 2020
Series:	Routledge studies in contemporary literature Routledge studies in contemporary literature 40
Subjects:	English fiction / 21st century / History and criticism Working class in literature Labor in literature Capitalism in literature Social conflict in literature Equality in literature Abjection in literature Stigma (Social psychology) in literature Literature and society / England / History / 21st century
Online Access:	Volltext
Summary:	"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"--
Item Description:	Description based on print version record
Physical Description:	1 online resource (172 pages.)
ISBN:	9781003007913 1003007910