Violence and Neglect: Survival Strategies of Women in Pat Barker's Union Street
| dc.contributor.advisor | Moise, Gabriella | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kondás, Petra | |
| dc.contributor.department | DE--TEK--Bölcsészettudományi Kar | hu_HU |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-05-02T13:17:29Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-05-02T13:17:29Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2013-04-15 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-05-02T13:17:29Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Union Street was Pat Barker’s first novel that could reach the reading public. Her previous two novels, the author admits, were not worthy of publication. Personally, she never believed that any of the publishers would give a chance to Union Street, because the cultural climate was not ready yet at the end of the 1970’s to give way to Barker’s realism. Her feminist point of view was considered revolutionary in working class fiction at the time, that instead of the male hero’s experiences, seven working class women’s life around the 1970’s is presented to the reader. It took her ten years to find a publisher that would release her novel, because many did not dare to release such a groundbreaking novel. The feminist publisher Virago was the one that saw a great opportunity in Union Street and finally published it in 1982. The novel received very favourable criticism and was welcomed by critics, probably because its most striking novelty that it “shifts the perspective of social realism from the male, affluent worker, to the experiences and identities of working-class women” (Brannigan, “Small Worlds” 15). John Kirk’s argument also supports this view: Union Street signals “an intervention on a long history of cultural – and especially literary – production that has all but ignored the lives and experiences of working class women” (Kirk 604). In previous working class fiction feminist issues were completely omitted - it was Barker’s novel that brought the issue of working-class women into general discourse. | hu_HU |
| dc.description.course | anglisztika | hu_HU |
| dc.description.degree | BSc/BA | hu_HU |
| dc.format.extent | 26 | hu_HU |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2437/166554 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | hu_HU |
| dc.rights.access | ip | hu_HU |
| dc.subject | violence | hu_HU |
| dc.subject | neglect | hu_HU |
| dc.subject | survival strategies | hu_HU |
| dc.subject.dspace | DEENK Témalista::Irodalomtudomány | hu_HU |
| dc.title | Violence and Neglect: Survival Strategies of Women in Pat Barker's Union Street | hu_HU |
| dc.type | diplomamunka |