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Sado-monetarism: Thatcherite subjects in Alasdair Gray and Martin Amis

Brooker, Joseph (2012) Sado-monetarism: Thatcherite subjects in Alasdair Gray and Martin Amis. Textual Practice 26 (1), pp. 135-154. ISSN 0950-236X.

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Abstract

This article reads Martin Amis's Money (1984) alongside Alasdair Gray's contemporaneous novel 1982 Janine. Drawing on Stuart Hall's analyses of Thatcherism as a contradictory ideological formation ‘speaking in the ear’ of the subject, the article presents both novels as troubled monologues from within the imaginative ideological space of a new Conservatism.

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Item Type: Article
Additional Information: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis, available online at the link above.
Keyword(s) / Subject(s): Martin Amis, Money , British fiction, 1980s, Thatcherism, ideology, Alasdair Gray, 1982 Janine
School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
Research Centres and Institutes: Contemporary Literature, Centre for
Depositing User: Administrator
Date Deposited: 23 May 2013 14:00
Last Modified: 29 Jul 2025 06:38
URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/6986

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