20TH CENTURY POPULAR CULTURE MEMORY IN LAD AND FEMINIST LITERATURE
20TH CENTURY POPULAR CULTURE MEMORY IN LAD AND FEMINIST LITERATURE

Summary/Abstract: The paper argues the case of the contemporary novel genre, emphasising its culture-bound function, conspicuous in the thesis novel. In the postliterate age of the late 20th century, narrative fiction recorded and openly politicized human experience. This message is fictitiously delivered and particularly explicit in the lad and feminist English novel of the century’s last decades. The British cultural inventory and partisan construal of social reality is the subject matter of Fever Pitch (1992) by Nick Hornby and The Passion (1987) by Jeanette Winterson. The representation of the people who narratively think of themselves in terms of a community is indebted to the language of folk memory. The aesthetic discourse circulates the public idiom of pop culture clichés, popular sweeping-statements and examples of normative behaviour. Conclusively, gendered recollections of the past are provided for the cultural use of readers who plot to read literature in the social interest, ideological advantage and political benefit of the same sex members.

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