Private Lives, Social Housing
Female Coming-of-Age Stories on the British Council Estate
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12920120 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emily Cuming (0000-0003-0378-1474, Scripps College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 328-345 |
| Publication date | 2013-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Women s Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1754-1476 • E-ISSN: 1754-1484 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/cww/vps029 |
| OpenAlex | W2328807913 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
This article explores the landscape of the British housing estate as a social and aesthetic backdrop and environment in female coming-of-age narratives. I argue that the relatively unexamined, complex, and paradoxical space of the housing estate – defined by its social and spatial peripherality – is integral to these stories of self-identity. I show how housing estates, associated with a narrative of decline, inform specific female ways of seeing and ways of articulating subjectivity in contemporary Britain. Through close analysis of three contemporary British texts that use the housing estate as a pivotal location, I examine the significance of narrative arcs that uphold individualist principles of escape and self-sufficiency as the only possible frameworks for selfhood
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Epistemology · Estate · Housing estate · Identity (music · Individualism · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Gender Studies · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2022 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |