TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alcalá,Roberto del Valle
AU  - Chung,Mia
TI  - British Working-Class Fiction: Narratives of Refusal and the Struggle Against Work
SN  - 9781474273763
AV  - PR881 -- .A433 2016eb 
U1  - 823.9140920624 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
KW  - English fiction--20th century--History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: British Working-Class 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 proletarian subjects -- 2.3 Capitalist subjectivation in David Storey's This Sporting Life -- 3. Reproductive Work and Proletarian Resistance in Transition: Nell Dunn and Pat Barker -- 3.1 Desire and the labour of subjectivity: On Nell Dunn's proletarian women -- 3.2 Reproduction in revolt: Pat Barker's Union Street -- 3.3 Prostitution, death and the subversion of life in Blow Your House Down -- 4. Beyond Civil Society: Proletarian Exodus 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: Precarious Subversions in Monica Ali and Joanna Kavenna -- 5.1 Untamed bodies, fleeing minds: Monica Ali's In the Kitchen -- 5.2 'Madness, the absence of work': On Joanna Kavenna's Inglorious -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
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