Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 297 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 557 g
Reihe: Cultural Margins
Britain, 1968 1990
Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 297 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 557 g
Reihe: Cultural Margins
ISBN: 978-0-521-45297-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
The first book in the Cultural Margins series is a ground-breaking study of racism and homophobia in British politics, which demonstrates the demonisation of blacks, lesbians, and gays in New Right discourse. Anna Marie Smith develops theoretical insights from literary and cultural critics, including Nietzsche, Foucault, Derrida, Hall, and Gilroy, to produce detailed readings of two key moments in New Right discourse: the speeches of Enoch Powell on black immigration (1968-72) and the legislative campaign of the late 1980s to prohibit the promotion of homosexuality. Her analysis challenges the silence on racism and homophobia in previous studies of Thatcherism and the New Right, and shows how demonisation of lesbians and gays depends on previous demonisations of black immigrant and criminal figures. Overall, this book offers a devastating critique of racism and homophobia in late twentieth-century Britain.
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Introduction; 1. Thatcherism, the new racism, and the British New Right: hegemonic imaginary or accidental mirage?; 2. Derrida's 'infrastructure' of supplementarity; 3. Separating difference from what it can do: nihilism and bio-power relations; 4. Powellism: the black immigrant as the post-colonial symptom and the phantasmatic re-closure of the British nation; 5. Thatcherism's promotion of homosexuality; Conclusion.
