Contemporary British Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Disenfranchisement
Freedom and the City
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In 2006 Lawrence Grossberg, the figure who played the most significant role in introducing the work of Stuart Hall and the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies to the USA, published an essay ent...
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This book is about fiction published in Britain, concerns itself mostly with the representation of London and interrogates the way in which a Jamaican (Hall) and an Englishman (Gilroy), building on the legacy ...
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In principle, the Trafford Centre, opened on 10 September 1998 in Dumplington, Greater Manchester, is the same as any other suburban megamall developed during the last 30 years. It offers two floors of flexibl...
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In April 2013, four decades after Robin Hood Gardens welcomed its first residents, the process of removing the concrete housing complex began in Poplar, East London. The proposal to demolish had been controver...
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This book examines the visions of urban space produced across a range of contemporary British fiction in order to evaluate the legacy of British cultural studies in the field of literary production between 198...
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On 26 August 1991, the most ostentatious contribution to the London skyline in nearly 30 years was officially opened by Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh. Looming more than 240 metres above the capital, On...
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On 24 June 2007, the rock group Bon Jovi staged a concert at a music venue in Greenwich, East London, that had cost a combination of state and private funders around £800 million to develop over the course of ...