Drafts by Martin Goodhead
Discussions of Working Class Egress or encounter and resistance in relation to Fisher's Hauntolog... more Discussions of Working Class Egress or encounter and resistance in relation to Fisher's Hauntology (Weird and the Eerie) in Contemporary British Literature. This Chapter focuses on Ordinary spaces
Discussions of Working Class Egress or encounter and resistance in relation to Fisher's Hauntolo... more Discussions of Working Class Egress or encounter and resistance in relation to Fisher's Hauntology (Weird and the Eerie) in Contemporary British Literature. This Chapter focuses on liminal 'outside' spaces
This MA thesis reads residual and emergent practice within working-class literature through a pos... more This MA thesis reads residual and emergent practice within working-class literature through a post-Williamsian framework constructed with reference to 'Hauntology' (in memory, practiced and landscape) in a climate of Capitalist Realism as well as drawing upon Walter Benjamin and Slavoj Zizek on retroactive historical formations
Conference Presentations by Martin Goodhead
Readings of working-class homelessness within Ross Raisin's Waterline (2011), as stasis, refusal ... more Readings of working-class homelessness within Ross Raisin's Waterline (2011), as stasis, refusal and resistant mobility, through a hauntological lens. (BACLS 2018) Around halfway through Ross Raisin's 2011 novel Waterline, Mick Little, a middle-aged Glaswegian who has relinquished his home-or been forced from it by forces outside his control-moves to London and after joining a strike against employers loses his job, becomes a rough-sleeper, and enters a homeless shelter. We see over the next few pages, through trying to manage 'begging' on his own, then being led to hostels and a temporary sleeping site by Beans, a fellow Glaswegian and homeless individual, a gradual acceptance or immersion into this life on Mick's part. This scene affords us a brief examination of contemporary homelessness-a personal phenomenon, a social phenomenon and a critical concept as it pertains to the working-class subject , middle-aged Scot and otherwise-endured and become a site of resistance, as presented within the modern British novel; one based upon questions pertaining to historicity, agency and the future and an analysis of whose tropes and concerns can be extended beyond its application to this single text.
This paper posited a framework, through Mark Fisher's Realism and the Hauntological, through wh... more This paper posited a framework, through Mark Fisher's Realism and the Hauntological, through which we can might start to identify contemporary literary critiques of political pessimism and historical stasis around traditional and 'new' British working-class subjects. Firstly, through reading within Raisin's British novel Waterline formal elements of hauntological or post-structurally-inflected literary realism. Secondly, through identifying intersectional class-awareness, recourse to seemingly-buried historical resources and future mobilization beyond the text’s reach and potentially in other texts. Finally, by framing these potentialities within episodes concerned with survival, symbolic refusal and autonomous improvisation, alongside a documenting of current precarious conditions.
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Alluvium: 21st-Century Writing, 21st-Century Approaches
Alluvium: 21st-Century Writing, 21st-Century Approaches
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