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Author:   Roberto del Valle Alcalá (Uppsala University, Sweden) ,  Mia Chung, (Dr ,  Roberto Del Valle Alcalaa
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.467kg
ISBN:  

9781474273749

ISBN 10:   1474273742
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   11 February 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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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Offering an analysis of working-class experience through detailed theoretical readings ... British Working-Class Fiction provides an urgent discussion of inequality and subjugation, while pointing to the possibilities of literature as a space of imaginative agency and flight. Times Literary Supplement

Offering an analysis of working-class experience through detailed theoretical readings ... British Working-Class Fiction provides an urgent discussion of inequality and subjugation, while pointing to the possibilities of literature as a space of imaginative agency and flight. * Times Literary Supplement *

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Roberto del Valle Alcalá is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English, Uppsala University, Sweden.

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