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The Intersection of Class and Space in British Postwar Writing: Kitchen Sink Aesthetics

Autor Simon Lee
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Centering on the British kitchen sink realism movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s, specifically its documentation of the built environment's influence on class consciousness, this book highlights the settings of a variety of novels, plays, and films, turning to archival research to offer new ways of thinking about how spatial representation in cultural production sustains or intervenes in the process of social stratification. As a movement that used gritty, documentary-style depictions of space to highlight the complexities of working-class life, the period's texts chronicled shifts in the social and topographic landscape while advancing new articulations of citizenship in response to the failures of post-war reconstruction. By exploring the impact of space on class, this book addresses the contention that critical discourse has overlooked the way the built environment informs class identity.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350193154
ISBN-10: 1350193151
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Argues that the texts produced as part of the kitchen sink realism movement help us to better understand representations of social class in the present

Notă biografică

Simon Lee is Assistant Professor of English at Texas State University, USA where he researches and teaches Post-WWII British literature, social class and labour history. He has published on writers such as Colin MacInnes, Shelagh Delaney, John Osborne and Pat Barker, and on topics such as immigration, nationalism and cultural identity.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments Introduction 1 "Look at the State of this Place!"-The Impact of Domestic Space on Post-WWII Class ConsciousnessPost-WWII Housing and Classed SpaceTheorizing Domestic Space and Class IdentityDomestic Anxiety in Look Back in AngerRenegotiations of Identity in Saturday Night and Sunday MorningQueering the Domestic in A Taste of Honey 2 "Off Down the Local"-Institutional Borders in Working-Class Communities Shared Space and Working-Class Institutions Collective Consciousness and Shared Experience Shared Space and Identity Formation in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Class Migration and Social Stasis in This Sporting Life Contours of Class and Mobility in Up the Junction 3 Spatial Transgression and The Working-Class Imaginary Theorizing Spatial Transgression: From the Production of Space to the Non-Space Transgressive Space and Post-WWII Potentiality Spatial Transgression and the Working-Class Imaginary in Up the Junction Subterranean Space and Diasporic Demimondes in City of Spades Differential Space and Inversion in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 4 Against Class Fetishism: The Legacy of Kitchen Sink RealismA Genealogy of the Realist Mode: Form Versus FunctionCritical Approaches to Kitchen Sink AestheticsMultimedia Motifs and Kitchen Sink ThematicsCommodified "Kitsch-en" Sinks in Coronation StreetChannel 4 and Coordinated Class EffectsTheaters of Anger and AggressionClass and Space in Contemporary Fiction Conclusion BibliographyIndex

Recenzii

Simon Lee sets out an important and compelling case for how the kitchen sink realism of the 1950s and 1960s moved beyond 1930s proletarian representations to establish new forms of classed identity, which remain the benchmark for working-class writing today.