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Killing Children in British Fiction
Dominic Dean
其他書名
Thatcherism to Brexit
出版State University of New York Press, 2024-10-01
主題Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th CenturyLiterary Criticism / Modern / 21st CenturyPerforming Arts / Film / History & CriticismSocial Science / LGBTQ+ Studies / GeneralPsychology / Movements / Psychoanalysis
ISBN14384995749781438499574
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=wp0CEQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This book stems from a simple yet disturbing observation: contemporary British fiction is full of children killing or being killed. Thoughtfully considering novels and films, alongside actual murder cases and moral panics, Dominic Dean develops this insight into a complex account of British cultural history, from the Thatcher to Brexit eras. Killing Children in British Fiction argues that the figure of the child provides means for negotiating, and hence for understanding, recent crises in Britain and their intersections with broader transnational conflicts. The book explores works from major British authors such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Doris Lessing, Sarah Waters, Alan Hollinghurst, and Peter Ackroyd; emerging writers such as David Szalay and Melissa Harrison; and filmmakers, including Stanley Kubrick, Nicholas Roeg, Robin Hardy, Derek Jarman, and Remi Weekes. Bridging and often challenging existing scholarship in childhood studies, literary studies, psychoanalysis, and critical and queer theory, Dean shows how the child, at once materially present and representative of an insecure future, can provoke relentless fantasies, fears, and, most troublingly, acts of real violence by adults.