Abstract
Any socio-analysis of fiction runs the risk of taking an objectivist sledgehammer to the enchanted spell of the perceptible literary effect (see Bourdieu 1996). In courting this risk we offer the alibi that socio-analysis of Welsh’s “Kingdom of Fife” intensifies and enriches the truth of social suffering since the strike. Literary transgressions and inversions of the sort produced by Welsh both express and veil the structure of damaged social space, its constraints and possibilities, as the contradictory consequences of collective defeat.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Digging the seam |
| Subtitle of host publication | popular cultures of the 1984/5 miners' strike |
| Editors | Simon Popple, Ian W. Macdonald |
| Place of Publication | Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Chapter | 16 |
| Pages | 217-229 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781443843041 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781443840811 |
| Publication status | Published - 9 Nov 2012 |
Keywords
- Sociology of literature
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Irvine Welsh
- Miners strike
- Habitus
- Hysteresis