Iain Sinclair's textual Obscenery

Kirsten Seale

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Abstract

This consideration of Iain Sinclair’s work begins at the summit of Beckton Alp, a pile of waste in London’s east which has been reconstituted as recreational space. The Alp is a topographical curiosity, and its unconventional history has prompted serial visits in Sinclair’s fiction and non-fiction. Importantly, it also functions for Sinclair as a totem signifying the pervasive regulatory influence of Panopticism in contemporary urban culture.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCity Visions: the Work of Iain Sinclair
EditorsRobert Bond, Jenny Bavidge
Place of PublicationU.K.
PublisherCambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages99-107
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9781847181534
Publication statusPublished - 2007

Keywords

  • Sinclair, Iain, 1943
  • London (England)
  • obscenery

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