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By examining the representation of urban space in contemporary British fiction, this book argues that key to the political left's strategy was a model of action which folded politics into culture and elevated disenfranchisement to the status of a political principle.
Contents
1. Introduction: 'What We Need Now...' PART I: IDENTIFYING THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF DISENFRANCHISEMENT 2. Resistance and Rationalisation: Exile and the Inner Cities in Jeanette Winterson's The Passion 3. Rave to the Grave: Hanif Kureishi and the Failure of Left Culturalism 4. Politics is Over: Flexibility and Freedom in J.G. Ballard's Late Dystopias PART II: LOCATING URBAN CULTURE IN TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY BRITISH FICTION 5. The New Culture Wars: Neo/Liberal Pedagogy in Ian McEwan's Saturday and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go 6. Placing Politics: Home and the Right to Habitation in Monica Ali's Brick Lane and Zadie Smith's NW 7. Coda: The Postcultural City and the Postculturalist Left Bibliography Index