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RADICAL FICTIONS - NICK BENTLEY KARTONIERT (TB)

This book takes a fresh look at English fiction produced in the 1950s. By looking at a range of
authors  some canonical  some less well known  it shows that the novel of the period was far
more diverse and formally experimental than previous accounts have suggested. Drawing on a wide
range of contemporary literary and cultural theories  the author examines the way in which
issues and anxieties in 1950s society were articulated and addressed in fiction. These issues
include the reformulation of Englishness in a rapidly decolonizing world  anxieties about
immigration  racism  class and classlessness  new configurations of gender  and the fear of the
Americanization of working-class culture  especially in the way it appeared to be influencing
English youth. The first part of the book identifies some of these anxieties  and the response
to them in non-fiction and writing by the emerging New Left. The second part contains a
theoretically informed reading of important Fifties novels by Kingsley Amis  John Wain  Muriel
Spark  Alan Sillitoe  Colin MacInnes and Sam Selvon.

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