Queering Thatcher: whatever happened to politics and culture in the 1980s?

During, Simon 2013. Queering Thatcher: whatever happened to politics and culture in the 1980s? JOMEC Journal (3)

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Abstract

Thatcherism was an incoherent form of governmentality which marked the end of both the traditional left and the traditional conservative right. It also contributed to literary culture's loss of authority. A loss of authority which also, however, meant an increase of literature's truth-telling power. Alan Hollingshurst’s The Line of Beauty was such a powerful truth-telling novel about the Thatcherite period in part because it critiqued Thatcherism by appealing to death's blind finality as uncovered in the HIV epidemic of the period.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Publisher:	Cardiff University
ISSN:	2049-2340
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	21 January 2025
Last Modified:	22 Jan 2025 08:55
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/175482

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