TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schmitt,Mark
TI  - British White Trash: Figurations of Tainted Whiteness in the Novels of Irvine Welsh, Niall Griffiths and John King 
T2  - Edition Kulturwissenschaft
SN  - 9783839441015
U1  - 420 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Bielefeld
PB  - transcript Verlag
KW  - Poor whites in literature
KW  - Poor whites
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - Social classes
KW  - Working class whites
KW  - British Studies
KW  - Class
KW  - Cultural Studies
KW  - Culture
KW  - Intersectionality
KW  - Irvine Welsh
KW  - John King
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - Literature
KW  - Niall Griffiths
KW  - Race
KW  - Racism
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; I. What Happened to the British (White) Working Class? --; II. “The trash ay Europe” --; III. How Southern Gothic Came to Wales --; IV. Trashing the National Centre --; Conclusion --; Works Cited; restricted access
N2  - "White trash" is a liminal figure that dramatizes the intersection of race and class. Contemporary British novelists like Irvine Welsh, Niall Griffiths and John King use this originally US-American stereotype to interrogate the racializing discourse of class in British society. Their novels are interdiscursive reflections of the figurations of race and class that still haunt the British cultural imaginary."British White Trash" is the first analysis to comprehensively examine the adaptation of the "white trash" stereotype in major British novels. The study thus contributes to a critical understanding of racism and classism, its cultural representations and its underlying social processes
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839441015?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783839441015
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783839441015/original
ER  -