Income Gap in Fiction | Episode 35

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Each week on The Matterhorn podcast, I discuss a way to layer fictions and discover the nuances of truth, using my novel as a catalyst but looking at other works of fiction as well as theory and interdisciplinary ideas. Each week, I also spend a little time on places & spaces, as part of a continued discourse on these ideas.

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Today’s episode links to “Part I: Causeway Bay, ii” in A Hong Kong Story.

Table of Contents

A full AI-created transcript can be accessed on the web version.

Keywords:

• Experiencing class & contexts

• Allows us to bring together extremes through fictional conflict or juxtaposition

• Other literary methods besides juxtaposition: hyperbole,

• Read to gain perspectives and empathy

• Sometimes becomes city/country or urban/pastoral (or connected with imma, but I’ll do that in another podcast

• Marxist theory

• Place & Space focus - Hong Kong’s MTR / metro systems

Photo to the Hong Kong underground by Cheung Yin on Unsplash

Texts:

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• Perfume by Patrick Süskind

• Lord Jim at Home by  Dinah Brooke

• George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo

• Guardian on class in US/UK

• Spectator on above

• 1980 Vanneman article

• Economic system in Austria

• Kids’ fiction on rich-poor gap

• Ken Loach - The Old Oak & I, Daniel Blake (below)

• Recent interview with Ken Loach in Le Monde

• Where am I sleeping tonight?

• inequality ranking by country

• A Tale of Two Cities

• My book for literature teachers and students

• Macbeth

• The Great Gatsby

• The Crucible

• The Sexual Boundaries of Race and Class in Working-Class Novels: Marrying Up and Living it Down/marrying Down and Living it Up

• The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

• Walter Benjamin – The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

  https://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/benjamin.pdf

• Frederic Jameson Marxism and Form: 20^th Century Dialectical Theories of Literature / The Political Unconscious

• Terry Eagleton – Marxism and literary criticism

• Interview with Ackbar Abbas

• MTR history

• The Identity-Producing Spaces of Hong Kong:
  Reflections on Ackbar Abbas’s City of Disappearance