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An examination of representations of the British working class in 20th-century literature and film. John Kirk reasserts the importance of class as a category of critical analysis through a wide-ranging discussion of the changing nature, status and ideological concerns of working-class writing.

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'The University of Wales Press is to be complimented on publishing a work from which provides so many insights for the field of Welsh cultural studies.' www.gwales.com

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Introduction: Some Theoretical Perspectives I Contrary Voices: Images of the British Working Class from the 1930s and 1950s II Class, Community and 'Structures of Feeling' III Figuring the Dispossessed: Images of the Urban Working Class in the Writing of James Kelman IV Recovered Perspectives: Feminism and the Working Class V Recent Northern Realism: Return of the Repressed VI Black/Asian British Writing and Articulations of Class

The British Working Class in the Twentieth

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      Publisher: University of Wales Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/09/2003
      ISBN13: 9780708318133, 978-0708318133
      ISBN10: 708318134

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An examination of representations of the British working class in 20th-century literature and film. John Kirk reasserts the importance of class as a category of critical analysis through a wide-ranging discussion of the changing nature, status and ideological concerns of working-class writing.

      Trade Review
      'The University of Wales Press is to be complimented on publishing a work from which provides so many insights for the field of Welsh cultural studies.' www.gwales.com

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: Some Theoretical Perspectives I Contrary Voices: Images of the British Working Class from the 1930s and 1950s II Class, Community and 'Structures of Feeling' III Figuring the Dispossessed: Images of the Urban Working Class in the Writing of James Kelman IV Recovered Perspectives: Feminism and the Working Class V Recent Northern Realism: Return of the Repressed VI Black/Asian British Writing and Articulations of Class

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