British working-class fiction : narratives of refusal and the struggle against work /

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"British Fiction and the Struggle Against Work offers an account of British literary responses to work from the 1950s to the onset of the financial crisis of 2008/9. Roberto del Valle Alcal ̀argues that throughout this period, working-class writing developed new strategies of resistance against...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Del Valle Alcalá, Roberto (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury, 2016.
Temas:
1900-1999
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Work in literature.
Labor in literature.
Roman anglais > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et société > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Travail dans la littérature.
Literary studies: from c 1900.
Literary theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Labor in literature
English fiction
Literature and society
Work in literature
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction: British Fiction and the Struggle Against Work
  • 2. Between Capitalist Subsumption and Proletarian Independence: Alan Sillitoe, David Storey, and the Post-war Working Class. 2.1. From Consensus to Antagonism, or, the Post-war Rebirth of Subjectivity ; 2.2. From the Factory to the Social: Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and 'The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner' ; 2.3. Capitalist Subjectivation in David Storey's This Sporting Life
  • 3. Reproductive Work and Working-class Resistance in Transition: Nell Dunn and Pat Barker. 3.1. Desire and the Labour of Subjectivity in Nell Dunn's Up the Junction and Poor Cow ; 3.2. Reproduction in Revolt: Biopolitics in Pat Barker's Union Street ; 3.3. Prostitution, Death, and the Subversion of Life in Blow Your House Down
  • 4. Proletarian Exodus and Resistance in James Kelman and Irvine Welsh. 4.1. The Collapse of Measure: Postmodern Abstraction and Proletarian Flight in James Kelman ; 4.2. Beyond Civil Society: On Irvine Welsh's Skagboys
  • 5. Work in Crisis: Madness and (the Unworking of) Civilisation in Monica Ali and Joanna Kavenna. 5.1. Nomad Bodies, Precarious Minds: On Monica Ali's In the Kitchen ; 5.2. 'Madness, or, the Absence of Work': On Joanna Kavenna's Inglorious
  • 6. Conclusion: A Workless Future for British Fiction?"

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