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03891aam a2200505 i 4500 001 EF5B536EECCE11E5A64DF5B3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160318010059 008 150210s2015 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015001284 020 $a 1137393718 020 $a 9781137393715 035 $a (OCoLC)898925100 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCF $d YDXCP $d CDX $d OCLCO $d CHVBK $d EYM $d COO $d ZCU $d NLGGC $d NLE $d OCLCQ $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk-en 050 00 $a PR890.P6 $b B43 2015 082 00 $a 823/.92093581 $2 23 084 $a LIT004120 $2 bisacsh 084 $a 18.05 $2 bcl 100 1 $a Beaumont, Alexander, $d 1984- $e author. 245 10 $a Contemporary British fiction and the cultural politics of disenfranchisement : $b freedom and the city / $c Alexander Beaumont. 264 1 $a Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2015. 300 $a vii, 239 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "During the 1980s, urban space became an important battleground in a confrontation between left and right over the meaning of freedom. While Thatcherism sought to harness the power of the free market to rationalise and reform the inner cities, the response of the 'cultural' left was to celebrate the emancipatory potential of flexible identities and expressive practices associated with urban subcultures. However, through close readings of eight contemporary authors, this book argues that a problematic consequence of the left's experiment with freedom was to elevate exclusion to the status of a political principle and to close down the space of politics itself. It explores how, in less than two decades, the coexistence of flexible cultural identities and urban space has become a virtual impossibility in British fiction. And it suggests that, today, the British novel is frequently marked by structures of failed utopianism, frustrated or incomplete experiments and even withdrawal and quietism, all of which are a consequence of the left's celebration of a cultural politics of disenfranchisement"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: What We Need Now ... ' -- Part I: Identifying the Cultural Politics of Disenfranchisement -- Resistance and Rationalization: Exile and the Inner Cities in Jeanette Winterson's The Passion -- Rave To The Grave: Hanif Kureishi And The Failure Of Left Culturalism -- Politics Is Over: Flexibility and Freedom in J.G. Ballard's Late Dystopias -- Part II: Locating Urban Culture in Twenty-First-Century British Fiction -- The New Culture Wars: Neo/Liberal Pedagogy in Ian McEwan's Saturday Ad Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go -- Placing Politics: Home and the Right to Habitation in Monica Ali's Brick Lane and Zadie Smith's NW -- Coda: The Postcultural City and the Postculturalist Left. 650 0 $a English fiction $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Politics and literature $z Great Britain. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM $x English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. $x English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a English fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910817 650 7 $a Politics and literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01069960 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 650 7 $a Roman. $0 (DE-588)4050479-7 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Englisch. $0 (DE-588)4014777-0 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Freiheit. $0 (DE-588)4125079-5 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Stadt. $0 (DE-588)4126697-3 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Kulturelle IdentitaÌt. $0 (DE-588)4033542-2 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Linkspartei. $0 (DE-588)4167767-5 $2 gnd 651 7 $a GroÃbritannien. $0 (DE-588)4022153-2 $2 gnd 648 7 $a 2000 - 2099 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017014835.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EF5B536EECCE11E5A64DF5B3DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search