The Working Class and Twenty-First-Century British Fiction : Deindustrialisation, Demonisation, Resistance (Hardcover)

1) Introduction: Cliched and Caricatured? Part One - Mapping Deindustrialisation: Conflict, Nostalgia, Precarity 2) Chapter One ? ‘Everyone with a different fucking story’: GB84 by David Peace 3) Chapter Two ? ‘Takes you back even if you were never there originally’: The North of England Home Service by Gordon Burn 4) Chapter Three ? ‘The corpses of outlandish beasts decomposing’: Anthony Cartwright and the Deindustrial Novel Part Two ? Resisting Demonisation: Poverty, Abjection, Race 5) Chapter Four ? ‘Cut off, all of them, cut off’: Waterline by Ross Raisin 6) Chapter Five ? ‘I wouldnae stick tae the uniform’: The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan 7) Chapter Six - ‘All the usual boring brown reasons’: Sunjeev Sahota and the racialised working class 8) Conclusion: Class Matters