Dr Katy Shaw is a leading authority on the literature of the 1984–85 UK miners’ strike and twenty-first century writings. Her research interests include contemporary fiction, poetry and drama, working class literature, literatures of post-industrial regeneration and the languages of comedy. She is editor of C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings and Subject Leader and Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton, UK.
“For many years now, Dr Katy Shaw has been both the most knowledgeable and most accessible critic concerned with the literature of the 1984–85 miners’ strike, both the words and writings of the miners and their families themselves and the words and writings about them. Dr Shaw’s latest book is an astute and timely reminder of the continued relevance of the strike and its literature to Britain today.”– David Peace, author of GB84“Katy Shaw’s important, informative and provocative study is a powerful reminder that the great miners’ strike was the definitive industrial, political and social conflict of post-war Britain. Through a skilful comparison of previously unknown ‘front line’ poems with mainstream literary, theatrical and televisual representations of the strike, Shaw exposes contemporary culture’s failure to engage with the collective solidarity at the heart of embattled mining communities, an intellectual and creative flaw that reflects the collapse of socialist values in British politics and culture.”– Prof Ian Haywood, University of Roehampton“The historical significance of the 1984–5 UK miners’ strike has long been recognised. In this scholarly yet engaged study, Katy Shaw uncovers the rich cultural life and afterlife engendered by the miners’ heroic struggle.”– Dr Mike Sanders, University of Manchester
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