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 The Passion

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 Saturday and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go

Alexander Beaumont

6. Placing Politics: Home and the Right to Habitation in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and Zadie Smith’s NW

Alexander Beaumont

7. Coda: The Postcultural City and the Postculturalist Left
Alexander Beaumont

Avainsanat: Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Literary History, Fiction