@article{ART002093872},
author={Nandini CHANDRA},
title={Transitional Selves and the Question of Class Consciousness},
journal={탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities},
issn={2092-6081},
year={2014},
volume={7},
number={1},
pages={71-93},
doi={10.22901/trans.2014.7.1.71}
TY - JOUR
AU - Nandini CHANDRA
TI - Transitional Selves and the Question of Class Consciousness
JO - 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
PY - 2014
VL - 7
IS - 1
PB - Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
SP - 71
EP - 93
SN - 2092-6081
AB - This paper aims at understanding the phenomenon of working class subjective growth through two British working class autobiographies of the middle and late 20th century. It seeks to chart the relationship between the cultural aspects of class–based identity through the contesting and allied concepts of habitus (Pierre Bourdieu) and “structure of feeling” (Raymond Williams) on the one hand, and the more revolutionary potentials of class–consciousness on the other.
While the term “structure of feeling” expresses a generation–specific temporal unconscious, habitus is tied to a more spatial system of dispositions. While these terms delineate the possibility of the working class as subject in capitalism, the empirical proof from the autobiographies suggests that the attributes of this subjectivity may be the function of capital more than individual consciousness or a will to truth. Winnicott’s concept of the transitional object and the playing subject (seen as the apogee of creative humanity) is then used as the limit concept to demonstrate the hindering of subjectivity in capitalism. This lack of subjectivity or negative subjectivity could become the constellation that points beyond capitalism.
KW - class–consciousness;habitus;structure of feeling;transitional object;object use;working class autobiographies
DO - 10.22901/trans.2014.7.1.71
ER -
Nandini CHANDRA. (2014). Transitional Selves and the Question of Class Consciousness. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 7(1), 71-93.
Nandini CHANDRA. 2014, "Transitional Selves and the Question of Class Consciousness", 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, vol.7, no.1 pp.71-93. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2014.7.1.71
Nandini CHANDRA "Transitional Selves and the Question of Class Consciousness" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 7.1 pp.71-93 (2014) : 71.
Nandini CHANDRA. Transitional Selves and the Question of Class Consciousness. 2014; 7(1), 71-93. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2014.7.1.71
Nandini CHANDRA. "Transitional Selves and the Question of Class Consciousness" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 7, no.1 (2014) : 71-93.doi: 10.22901/trans.2014.7.1.71
Nandini CHANDRA. Transitional Selves and the Question of Class Consciousness. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 7(1), 71-93. doi: 10.22901/trans.2014.7.1.71
Nandini CHANDRA. Transitional Selves and the Question of Class Consciousness. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities. 2014; 7(1) 71-93. doi: 10.22901/trans.2014.7.1.71
Nandini CHANDRA. Transitional Selves and the Question of Class Consciousness. 2014; 7(1), 71-93. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2014.7.1.71
Nandini CHANDRA. "Transitional Selves and the Question of Class Consciousness" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 7, no.1 (2014) : 71-93.doi: 10.22901/trans.2014.7.1.71
