Simon Lee

The Intersection of Class and Space in British Postwar Writing

Kitchen Sink Aesthetics

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Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350193154
• ISBN-10: 1350193151
• Artikelnr.: 68580024

Autorenporträt

Simon Lee

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction 1 "Look at the State of this Place!"-The
Impact of Domestic Space on Post-WWII Class Consciousness Post-WWII Housing
and Classed Space Theorizing Domestic Space and Class Identity Domestic
Anxiety in Look Back in Anger Renegotiations of Identity in Saturday Night
and Sunday Morning Queering 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 Realism A
Genealogy of the Realist Mode: Form Versus Function Critical Approaches to
Kitchen Sink Aesthetics Multimedia Motifs and Kitchen Sink Thematics
Commodified "Kitsch-en" Sinks in Coronation Street Channel 4 and
Coordinated Class Effects Theaters of Anger and Aggression Class and Space
in Contemporary Fiction Conclusion Bibliography Index