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“It’s the mass that counts” : striking energies in working-class fiction
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Niblett, Michael (2017) “It’s the mass that counts” : striking energies in working-class fiction. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 53 (3). pp. 303-315. doi:10.1080/17449855.2017.1337675 ISSN 1744-9855.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2017.1337675
Abstract
This article considers the way in which the political ecologies of coal and oil overdetermine the representation of labour struggles in Ellen Wilkinson’s Clash (1929) and Ralph de Boissière’s Crown Jewel (1952). The historical strikes around which these novels are organized were sparked by conflict over working conditions in, respectively, the coal industry in the UK and the oil industry in Trinidad. Analysing the relationship between the energies generated by mass strike action and the narrative energetics of fiction, the article explores how Wilkinson and de Boissière reshape the novel form in their efforts to represent working-class life.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PR English literature | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Strikes and lockouts -- Coal miners -- Great Britain -- In Literature, Strikes and lockouts -- Petroleum workers -- Trinidad and Tobago -- In Literature, Wilkinson, Ellen Cicely, 1891-1947 -- Criticism and interpretation, De Boissière, Ralph -- Criticism and interpretation | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Postcolonial Writing | ||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1744-9855 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 31 August 2017 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 53 | ||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 303-315 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/17449855.2017.1337675 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 8 February 2017 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 March 2019 | ||||||
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