Working-class writing and publishing in the late twentieth century: Literature, culture and community
From the early 1970s, working class writing and publishing in local communities rapidly proliferated into a national movement. This book is the first full evaluation of these developments and opens up new perspectives on literature, culture, class and identity over the past 50 years. Its origins are traced in the context of international shifts in class politics, civil rights, personal expression and cultural change. The writing of young people, older people, adult literacy groups as well as writing workshops is analysed. Thematic chapters explore how audiences consumed this work, the learning of writers, the fierce debates over identity, class and organisation, as well as changing relations with mainstream institutions. The book is accessibly written but engages with a wide range of scholarly work in history, education, cultural studies, literature and sociology. It will be of interest to lecturers and students in these areas as well as the general reader.
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Working-class writing and publishing in the late twentieth century: Literature, culture and community
From the early 1970s, working class writing and publishing in local communities rapidly proliferated into a national movement. This book is the first full evaluation of these developments and opens up new perspectives on literature, culture, class and identity over the past 50 years. Its origins are traced in the context of international shifts in class politics, civil rights, personal expression and cultural change. The writing of young people, older people, adult literacy groups as well as writing workshops is analysed. Thematic chapters explore how audiences consumed this work, the learning of writers, the fierce debates over identity, class and organisation, as well as changing relations with mainstream institutions. The book is accessibly written but engages with a wide range of scholarly work in history, education, cultural studies, literature and sociology. It will be of interest to lecturers and students in these areas as well as the general reader.
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Working-class writing and publishing in the late twentieth century: Literature, culture and community

Working-class writing and publishing in the late twentieth century: Literature, culture and community

by Tom Woodin
Working-class writing and publishing in the late twentieth century: Literature, culture and community

Working-class writing and publishing in the late twentieth century: Literature, culture and community

by Tom Woodin

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From the early 1970s, working class writing and publishing in local communities rapidly proliferated into a national movement. This book is the first full evaluation of these developments and opens up new perspectives on literature, culture, class and identity over the past 50 years. Its origins are traced in the context of international shifts in class politics, civil rights, personal expression and cultural change. The writing of young people, older people, adult literacy groups as well as writing workshops is analysed. Thematic chapters explore how audiences consumed this work, the learning of writers, the fierce debates over identity, class and organisation, as well as changing relations with mainstream institutions. The book is accessibly written but engages with a wide range of scholarly work in history, education, cultural studies, literature and sociology. It will be of interest to lecturers and students in these areas as well as the general reader.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780719091117
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication date: 08/22/2018
Series: Manchester University Press
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Tom Woodin is Reader in the Social History of Education at the Institute of Education, UniversityCollege London

Table of Contents

Introduction
1 Sources of radicalism
2 Young people’s writing
3 The good old days?
4 A beginner reader is not a beginner thinker
5 The workshop and working-class writing
6 Making writers: more writing than welding
7 Alternative publishing and audience participation
8 Chuck out the teacher: critical pedagogy in the community
9 Class and identity
10 The mainstream and the movement
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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