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Umeå Studies in the Humanities 125
Ardent Propaganda
Miners’ novels and class conflict 1929—1939David Bell |
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This study of miners’ novels of the 1930s deals with four novels that are characterised by their attempts to integrate political ideology into working-class fiction. The study examines how ideology acts as determining factor in the structure and content of these novels, thereby influencing interpretation.
In addition to demonstrating how these novels constrain interpretation, this study shows how they form part of a ”functional” tradition of miners’ writing that appropriates literary forms to engage in the contemporary debates within the mining community, and between it and society at large. In this respect, an understanding of the political and cultural climate of the period is essential to the understanding and evaluation of these novels, and to assess their contribution to British fiction.
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