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The Intersection of Class and Space in British Postwar Writing Simon Lee

The Intersection of Class and Space in British Postwar Writing By Simon Lee

The Intersection of Class and Space in British Postwar Writing by Simon Lee

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The Intersection of Class and Space in British Postwar Writing: Kitchen Sink Aesthetics by Simon Lee

Centering on the British kitchen sink realism movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s, specifically its documentation of the built environment’s influence on class consciousness, this book highlights the settings of a variety of novels, plays, and films, turning to archival research to offer new ways of thinking about how spatial representation in cultural production sustains or intervenes in the process of social stratification. As a movement that used gritty, documentary-style depictions of space to highlight the complexities of working-class life, the period’s texts chronicled shifts in the social and topographic landscape while advancing new articulations of citizenship in response to the failures of post-war reconstruction. By exploring the impact of space on class, this book addresses the contention that critical discourse has overlooked the way the built environment informs class identity.

The Intersection of Class and Space in British Postwar Writing Reviews

An innovative and intelligent contribution to the rapidly developing field of working-class literary studies and its project of recovering different voices, perspectives, and ways of understanding, of rethinking what literature is and what it does. * English Studies *
Simon Lee sets out an important and compelling case for how the kitchen sink realism of the 1950s and 1960s moved beyond 1930s proletarian representations to establish new forms of classed identity, which remain the benchmark for working-class writing today. * Nick Hubble, Professor of Modern and Contemporary English, Brunel University, UK *

About Simon Lee

Simon Lee is Assistant Professor of English at Texas State University, USA where he researches and teaches Post-WWII British literature, social class and labour history. He has published on writers such as Colin MacInnes, Shelagh Delaney, John Osborne and Pat Barker, and on topics such as immigration, nationalism and cultural identity.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction 1 “Look at the State of this Place!”—The Impact of Domestic Space on Post-WWII Class Consciousness Post-WWII Housing and Classed Space Theorizing Domestic Space and Class Identity Domestic Anxiety in Look Back in Anger Renegotiations of Identity in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Queering the Domestic in A Taste of Honey 2 “Off Down the Local”—Institutional Borders in Working-Class Communities Shared Space and Working-Class Institutions Collective Consciousness and Shared Experience Shared Space and Identity Formation in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Class Migration and Social Stasis in This Sporting Life Contours of Class and Mobility in Up the Junction 3 Spatial Transgression and The Working-Class Imaginary Theorizing Spatial Transgression: From the Production of Space to the Non-Space Transgressive Space and Post-WWII Potentiality Spatial Transgression and the Working-Class Imaginary in Up the Junction Subterranean Space and Diasporic Demimondes in City of Spades Differential Space and Inversion in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 4 Against Class Fetishism: The Legacy of Kitchen Sink Realism A Genealogy of the Realist Mode: Form Versus Function Critical Approaches to Kitchen Sink Aesthetics Multimedia Motifs and Kitchen Sink Thematics Commodified “Kitsch-en” Sinks in Coronation Street Channel 4 and Coordinated Class Effects Theaters of Anger and Aggression Class and Space in Contemporary Fiction Conclusion Bibliography Index

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NPB9781350193093
9781350193093
1350193097
The Intersection of Class and Space in British Postwar Writing: Kitchen Sink Aesthetics by Simon Lee
Simon Lee
New
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2023-01-26
240
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