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The Working Class and Twenty-First-Century British Fiction Phil O'Brien

The Working Class and Twenty-First-Century British Fiction By Phil O'Brien

The Working Class and Twenty-First-Century British Fiction by Phil O'Brien

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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.

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The Working Class and Twenty-First-Century British Fiction: Deindustrialisation, Demonisation, Resistance by Phil O'Brien

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.

The Working Class and Twenty-First-Century British Fiction Reviews

'What does it mean to be working class in the twenty-first century, decades after industrial jobs and strong unions have given way to low-wage service jobs, contingent labour, and precarity? This book traces how deindustrialisation literature wrestles with this question, revealing how class itself is being reimagined and reshaped by economic restructuring and neoliberalism - while also introducing readers to a range of engaging and entertaining books worth reading'.

Sherry Lee Linkon, Georgetown University, USA.

'This book makes a compelling case for the intersections between class and contemporary literature. It brings the academic study of working-class writing bang up to date'.

Nicola Wilson, University of Reading, UK.

The Working Class and Twenty-First-Century British Fiction is as thoughtful as it is rigorous. Its arguments are compelling and its close readings convincing; for these reasons alone it would make a valuable addition to university libraries. But for the wider implications of its secondary argument, that fiction has the potential to make significant interventions into critical discourses, it deserves a place on any contemporary fiction reading list. As the book's final words attest, 'class matters' (154), and it will go on mattering; the same goes for fiction, and O'Brien shows us why.

Joseph Williams, University of East Anglia, UK.


'What does it mean to be working class in the twenty-first century, decades after industrial jobs and strong unions have given way to low-wage service jobs, contingent labour, and precarity? This book traces how deindustrialisation literature wrestles with this question, revealing how class itself is being reimagined and reshaped by economic restructuring and neoliberalism - while also introducing readers to a range of engaging and entertaining books worth reading'.

Sherry Lee Linkon, Georgetown University, USA.

'This book makes a compelling case for the intersections between class and contemporary literature. It brings the academic study of working-class writing bang up to date'.

Nicola Wilson, University of Reading, UK.

About Phil O'Brien

Phil O'Brien has written on working-class fiction and theatre for Textual Practice and Literature & History and in Accelerated Times: British Literature in Transition (Cambridge University Press) and Working-Class Writing: Theory & Practice (Palgrave). He is secretary of the Raymond Williams Society, on the editorial board of Key Words, and editor of Culture & Politics (Verso) by Raymond Williams. He has taught at the University of Manchester and Liverpool John Moores University. This is his first book.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Class, Culture, Politics

Part One: Mapping Deindustrialisation

Chapter One: David Peace and the Strike Novel: Conflict, History, Knowledge

Chapter Two: Gordon Burn and Working-Class Nostalgia: Region, Form, Commodification

Chapter Three: Anthony Cartwright and the Deindustrial Novel: Realism, Place, Class

Part Two: Resisting Demonisation

Chapter Four: Ross Raisin and Class Mourning: Masculinity, Work, Precarity

Chapter Five: Jenni Fagan and the Revolting Class: Gender, Stigma, Resistance

Chapter Six: Sunjeev Sahota and the Racialised Worker: Class, Race, Violence

Conclusion: Class Matters

Additional information

GOR013626786
9781032239286
103223928X
The Working Class and Twenty-First-Century British Fiction: Deindustrialisation, Demonisation, Resistance by Phil O'Brien
Phil O'Brien
Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2021-12-13
184
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