Contemporary British fiction and the cultural politics of disenfranchisement : freedom and the city /: freedom and the city. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alexander Beaumont.
• Authors: Beaumont, Alexander, 1984-
• Contents: 1. Introduction: 'What We Need Now ... ' -- PART I: IDENTIFYING THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF DISENFRANCHISEMENT -- 2. Resistance and Rationalisation: Exile and the Inner Cities in Jeanette Winterson's "The Passion" -- 3. Rave to the Grave: Hanif Kureishi and the Failure of Left Culturalism -- 4. Politics is Over: Flexibility and Freedom in J.G. Ballard's Late Dystopias -- PART II: LOCATING URBAN CULTURE IN TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY BRITISH FICTION -- 5. The New Culture Wars: Neo/Liberal Pedagogy in Ian McEwan's "Saturday" and Kazuo Ishiguro's "Never Let Me Go" -- 6. Placing Politics: Home and the Right to Habitation in Monica Ali's "Brick Lane" and Zadie Smith's "NW" -- 7. Coda: The Postcultural City and the Postculturalist Left.
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 823/.92093581; Literature; English fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Politics and literature -- Great Britain; LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English fiction; Politics and literature; Roman; Englisch; Freiheit; Stadt; Kulturelle Identität; Linkspartei; Literary Criticism -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism -- Semiotics & Theory; Social Science -- General; Literary Criticism -- General; Fiction -- General; Literature: history & criticism; Literary theory; Cultural studies; Fiction & related items; British literature; Fiction; Literary studies: from c 1900; Great Britain; Großbritannien; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137393722; 1137393726
• Related ISBNs: 9781349483679
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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