Beaumont, Alexander
Contemporary British Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Disenfranchisement
1. Introduction: ‘What We Need Now…’
Alexander Beaumont
Part I. Identifying the Cultural Politics of Disenfranchisement
2. Resistance and Rationalisation: Exile and the Inner Cities in Jeanette Winterson’s
Alexander Beaumont
3. Rave to the Grave: Hanif Kureishi and the Failure of Left Culturalism
Alexander Beaumont
4. Politics Is Over: Flexibility and Freedom in J.G. Ballard’s Late Dystopias
Alexander Beaumont
Part II. Locating Urban Culture in Twenty-First-Century British Fiction
5. The New Culture Wars: Neo/liberal Pedagogy in Ian McEwan’s
Alexander Beaumont
6. Placing Politics: Home and the Right to Habitation in Monica Ali’s
Alexander Beaumont
7. Coda: The Postcultural City and the Postculturalist Left
Alexander Beaumont
Keywords: Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Literary History, Fiction
- Author(s)
- Beaumont, Alexander
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2015
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 246 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137393722
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-48367-9