Iain Sinclair's textual Obscenery

Kirsten Seale

Iain Sinclair's textual Obscenery

Kirsten Seale

Western Sydney University

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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 language	English
Title of host publication	City Visions: the Work of Iain Sinclair
Editors	Robert Bond, Jenny Bavidge
Place of Publication	U.K.
Publisher	Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages	99-107
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	9781847181534
Publication status	Published - 2007

Keywords

Sinclair, Iain, 1943
London (England)
obscenery

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