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British White Trash Figurations of Tainted Whiteness in the Novels of Irvine Welsh, Niall Griffiths and John King Mark Schmitt
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schmitt, Mark <p>Mark Schmitt, TU Dortmund University, Deutschland</p>, Author.
- Series:
- Culture & theory ; Volume 154.
- Edition Kulturwissenschaft
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Contemporary British Literature.
- Race.
- Class.
- Culture.
- Intersectionality.
- Irvine Welsh.
- Niall Griffiths.
- John King.
- Literature.
- British Studies.
- Cultural Studies.
- Racism.
- Literary Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Contemporary British Literature.
- Race.
- Class.
- Culture.
- Intersectionality.
- Irvine Welsh.
- Niall Griffiths.
- John King.
- Literature.
- British Studies.
- Cultural Studies.
- Racism.
- Literary Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Schmitt, British White Trash Figurations of Tainted Whiteness in the Novels of Irvine Welsh, Niall Griffiths and John King
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2018
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Mark Schmitt is a postdoctoral Stuart Hall Fellow at TU Dortmund University, where he teaches British Cultural Studies. His research interests include British and Irish literature and film, cultural theory as well as discourses of social and racial abjection.
- Summary:
- "White trash" is a liminal figure that dramatizes the intersection of race and class. Contemporary British novelists like Irvine Welsh, Niall Griffiths and John King use this originally US-American stereotype to interrogate the racializing discourse of class in British society. Their novels are interdiscursive reflections of the figurations of race and class that still haunt the British cultural imaginary."British White Trash" is the first analysis to comprehensively examine the adaptation of the "white trash" stereotype in major British novels. The study thus contributes to a critical understanding of racism and classism, its cultural representations and its underlying social processes.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 Introduction 9 I. What Happened to the British (White) Working Class? 31 II. "The trash ay Europe" 77 III. How Southern Gothic Came to Wales 149 IV. Trashing the National Centre 219 Conclusion 293 Works Cited 297
- ISBN:
- 9783839441015
- 3839441013
- OCLC:
- 1031964399
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