Power in Politics and Academia in Jonathan Coe's Novels
This book explores the intricate manifestations of contemporary power, its related ideology, and the “resistance” and reaction to the dominant discourse in Jonathan Coe’s political fiction, covering the dismantling of the British social-democratic consensus, Thatcherism and Blairism, up to the new ideology of “Globalism.”
Beyond the predictable dichotomy of support-opposition to power, the book argues the modern individual seems to have found another ontological approach, for which it coins the concept of “intentional unpower”. Furthermore, it demonstrates that there are three possibilities regarding the evolution of this type of social response, and invites the readers to discover them, while enjoying Coe’s subtlety and humour.
Given its broad approach, the book will appeal to researchers in a wide range of domains, including literary and cultural studies, political theory, and sociology, as well as any reader fascinated with the essence of power, intellectual response, and discourses containing their own elements of subversion.
Denisa Dumitraşcu holds a PhD in British Literary and Cultural Studies, which she received from the University of Bucharest, Romania, in 2012. She was a visiting PhD researcher at the University of Zürich, Switzerland, between 2009 and 2010, and has taught Business English and Inter-cultural Communication at the Romanian-American University, Romania, since 2005. Between 2014 and 2016, she taught Business English and Cross-Cultural Awareness at the University of Applied Sciences of Amsterdam. She teaches communication skills in English, Romanian, Italian and French at various multinational corporations in Bucharest and she is a conference interpreter. She has been a guest lecturer at various universities in France, Norway, Finland, Belgium, Spain, Italy and Denmark.
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