6 Driven to the margins
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Brian Baker
Abstract
This chapter assesses the impact of the Millennium Dome, a structure that is believed to have been a part of an ideological project to negotiate the seeming fracture of a unified British ‘identity’. It introduces the ‘spectator of modernity’, which is the flâneur, who is able to take in the city as a totality, and a formulation that joins together with the subjectivity questioned by the modern nation-state. It then looks at Sinclair's move from the centre to the margins and his interest in studying the repressed, forgotten and suppressed. Finally, it shows how London is marked with histories of oppression and histories of resistance.
Abstract
This chapter assesses the impact of the Millennium Dome, a structure that is believed to have been a part of an ideological project to negotiate the seeming fracture of a unified British ‘identity’. It introduces the ‘spectator of modernity’, which is the flâneur, who is able to take in the city as a totality, and a formulation that joins together with the subjectivity questioned by the modern nation-state. It then looks at Sinclair's move from the centre to the margins and his interest in studying the repressed, forgotten and suppressed. Finally, it shows how London is marked with histories of oppression and histories of resistance.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- Series editor’s foreword ix
- Acknowledgements xi
- Introduction 1
- 1 Space and time, myth and place 33
- 2 Whitechapel autopsy 60
- 3 The widow; or, the critical baroque 80
- 4 Internal exiles 103
- 5 The visual text 117
- 6 Driven to the margins 138
- 7 Borderlands 161
- References 180
- Index 189
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- Series editor’s foreword ix
- Acknowledgements xi
- Introduction 1
- 1 Space and time, myth and place 33
- 2 Whitechapel autopsy 60
- 3 The widow; or, the critical baroque 80
- 4 Internal exiles 103
- 5 The visual text 117
- 6 Driven to the margins 138
- 7 Borderlands 161
- References 180
- Index 189
