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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      August 2009
      November 1994
      ISBN:
      9780511518676
      9780521452977
      9780521459211
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511518676
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.53kg, 300 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.38kg, 300 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Politics: General Interest, Literary Theory, European and World Literature: General Interest, Politics and International Relations
      Series:
      Cultural Margins (1)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Politics: General Interest, Literary Theory, European and World Literature: General Interest, Politics and International Relations
    Series:
    Cultural Margins (1)
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    The first book in the Cultural Margins series is a 1994 study of racism and homophobia in British politics, which demonstrates the demonisation of blacks, lesbians, and gays in New Right discourse. Anna Marie Smith develops theoretical insights from literary and cultural critics, including Nietzsche, Foucault, Derrida, Hall, and Gilroy, to produce detailed readings of two key moments in New Right discourse: the speeches of Enoch Powell on black immigration (1968–72) and the legislative campaign of the late 1980s to prohibit the promotion of homosexuality. Her analysis challenges the silence on racism and homophobia in previous studies of Thatcherism and the New Right, and shows how demonisation of lesbians and gays depends on previous demonisations of black immigrant and criminal figures. Overall, this book offers a devastating critique of racism and homophobia in late twentieth-century Britain.

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    "It is a project which addresses one of the most compelling issues of our time--an issue central to the survival and future well-being of gay and lesbian people (not to mention a great many other groups)." Toronto Centre for Lesbian and Gay Studies

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