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- W4225327841 abstract "This chapter compares very different articulations of British working-class identities and spaces in two recent novels. It begins by critically examining theories of space and working-class identity with reference to a number of theorists and cultural critics including Richard Hoggart, Henri Lefebvre, Doreen Massey, and Edward Soja. It posits a triangular relationship of working practices, space, and identity that are co-dependent and that the changes in any one of these areas cause a subsequent shift in the others. The chapter goes on to contrast the fluid representation of working-class people and culture in contemporary fiction with the more fixed models inherited from the 1950s. With reference to critics such as Tim Edensor, it argues that the contemporary working-class novel offers a complicated adaptation of realist approaches with a turn toward the gothic as a genre particularly suited to express the ghostly relationship between past and present produced by the deindustrialization of urban landscapes. The chapter goes on to discuss Ross Raisin’s Waterline (2011) and Martin Amis’s Lionel Asbo (2012) and argues that the contrasting approaches taken by the two writers reveal the complexities of articulating working-class characters and environments in the twenty-first century. It shows how the representation of space in Waterline speaks to the realist tradition but argues that profound shifts in environment and working practices produce an identity crisis in its main character that pushes the conventions of realism. Amis’s novel is more slippery and controversial. The chapter examines the way in which the eponymous anti-hero can be seen as indicative of a trend to demonize and ridicule working-class behaviors but goes on to argue that this aspect of the novel should be framed against identification of Lionel as a fundamentally gothic figure reflecting the effects on a culture of the slow violence of deindustrialization." @default.
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- W4225327841 title "Ghost Towns" @default.
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