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British Working-Class Fiction - Narratives of Refusal and the Struggle Against Work (Paperback)
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British Working-Class Fiction - Narratives of Refusal and the Struggle Against Work (Paperback)
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British Fiction and the Struggle Against Work offers an account of
British literary responses to work from the 1950s to the onset of
the financial crisis of 2008/9. Roberto del Valle Alcala argues
that throughout this period, working-class writing developed new
strategies of resistance against the social discipline imposed by
capitalist work. As the latter becomes an increasingly pervasive
and inescapable form of control and as its nature grows abstract,
diffuse, and precarious, writing about it acquires a new
antagonistic quality, producing new forms of subjective autonomy
and new imaginaries of a possible life beyond its purview. By
tracing a genealogy of working-class authors and texts that in
various ways defined themselves against the social discipline
imposed by post-war capitalism, this book analyses the strategies
adopted by workers in their attempts to identify and combat the
source of their oppression. Drawing on the work of a wide range of
theorists including Deleuze and Guattari, Giorgio Agamben and
Antonio Negri, Alcala offers a systematic and innovative account of
British literary treatments of work. The book includes close
readings of fiction by Alan Sillitoe, David Storey, Nell Dunn, Pat
Barker, James Kelman, Irvine Welsh, Monica Ali, and Joanna Kavenna.
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