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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Note on notes
A new introduction – Ideology and Commitment: A Personal Account xi
Foreword to the Second Edition
The politics and cultures of discord ( 1997) Spotting cultures; ‘fat, rich festival cunts’; rectifying our anomaly; materialism and subculture; making it political
1 Introduction
2 War stories Bringing us victory; consensus and its enemies; the broken promise
3 Literature and cultural production Telling stories; literature as a cultural apparatus; contesting stories; literature and intervention
4 Class/culture/welfare Culture, class and dissidence; ‘a Woolworth life’: culture under threat; literature and welfare- capitalism; culture preserved; discrimination; after welfare
5 Queers, treachery and the literary establishment The return of Ambrose Silk; civilization and the ‘effeminate’; the homosexual disturbance; treachery and after; sex and the Movement
6 Freedom and the Cold War Existentialism and politics; the Cold War; the myth of 1984; the Free World and free literature; the free market; free – for what?
7 Cultural plunder and the savage within Cultural plunder; phobic and structural racism; colonial crisis; literature and the metropolis; a crisis of self esteem; the savage within; nature and culture
8 Making a scene Putting on the style; music and movement; Blacks, existentialists and Beats; reasons for attendance; lipstick on your collar; commerce and authenticity
9 Reinventing Modernism Anglo-Saxon attitudes; Modernism in the global village; alienation; conductors; the politics of English studies; journalism and literature
10 Women writing: Sylvia Plath What happened to feminism; the politics of madness; women writing; the scriptor scripted; TH; rabbit catcher; the case for extremism; afterlife
11 The rise of Left-culturism Class and the establishment; socialism with a British face; CND and a new-left intelligentsia; Left-culturism; the state and the Left
12 Intellectuals and workers What about the workers?; new-left subculture; the working class revisited; cultural work
13 The ways we live now The failure of welfare-capitalism; the failure of ‘good’ culture; Postmodernism and standards; new-right cultural production; dismantling ‘the culture’; freedom once more
List of books and articles cited 353
Index
Index to ̰The Politics and Cultures of Discord (1997)’
Question what you thought before
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