“We’re Working Class. We’re Easy Meat.” Brexit and the Working Class in Anthony Cartwright’s The Cut (2017) and Rachel Trezise’s Easy Meat (2021)
This article sets out to explore contemporary novels from England and Wales for which their authors have stated that Brexit was a call to action or is the actual backdrop to the writing. Although both nations voted in favour of leaving the EU, the reactions in fiction show both common ground and cul...
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| Materyal Türü: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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Revue française de civilisation britannique
2024
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| Online Erişim: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Özet: | This article sets out to explore contemporary novels from England and Wales for which their authors have stated that Brexit was a call to action or is the actual backdrop to the writing. Although both nations voted in favour of leaving the EU, the reactions in fiction show both common ground and cultural differences. The question of class and its impact on the Brexit vote will be examined in English writer Anthony Cartwright’s The Cut (2018) and Welsh author Rachel Trezise’s Easy Meat (2021). How have these novelists reflected the debates that took place before and during the Brexit referendum? Where do the writers’ sympathies lie? Does the cultural formation of the novelists participate in their written production? These are some of the questions that will be put under the microscope to ascertain whether there was a different ‘structure of feeling’ in England and Wales to the disruptive event of 23 June 2016. |
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