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Radical Fictions - The English Novel in the 1950s (Paperback)
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Radical Fictions - The English Novel in the 1950s (Paperback)
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This book takes a fresh look at English fiction produced in the
1950s. By looking at a range of authors, some canonical, some less
well known, it shows that the novel of the period was far more
diverse and formally experimental than previous accounts have
suggested. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary literary and
cultural theories, the author examines the way in which issues and
anxieties in 1950s society were articulated and addressed in
fiction. These issues include the reformulation of Englishness in a
rapidly decolonizing world; anxieties about immigration, racism,
class and classlessness; new configurations of gender; and the fear
of the Americanization of working-class culture, especially in the
way it appeared to be influencing English youth. The first part of
the book identifies some of these anxieties, and the response to
them in non-fiction and writing by the emerging New Left. The
second part contains a theoretically informed reading of important
Fifties novels by Kingsley Amis, John Wain, Muriel Spark, Alan
Sillitoe, Colin MacInnes and Sam Selvon.
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