This essay offers a new reading of two post-war working-class British novels, Barry Hines’s A Kestrel for a Knave and Ron Berry’s So Long, Hector Bebb , in light of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s ideas about the body and subjectivity. What is at stake in these narratives, as in the theoretical edifice constructed by Deleuze and Guattari, is a possibility of being—in this case, of social, class-marked being—that does not necessarily commence and conclude with fixed positions and functional roles, or with already formed subjectivities and identities. The class figures that we encounter in these novels call for a careful reappraisal of political agency outside of these sanctioned parameters, and for an alternative understanding of marginality in a context of crisis of Fordist social and productive relations.

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英国工人阶级小说中的阶级、体现和成为：与德勒兹和加塔里重读巴里·海因斯和罗恩·贝瑞

这篇文章根据吉尔·德勒兹和菲利克斯·加塔里关于身体和主体性的观点，重新解读了两部战后英国工人阶级小说，即巴里·海因斯的《一个无赖的红隼》和罗恩·贝里的《这么长时间，赫克托·贝布》。在这些叙事中，就像在德勒兹和加塔里建造的理论大厦中一样，存在的可能性——在这种情况下，是社会的、有阶级标记的存在——不一定以固定的位置和功能角色开始和结束，或者已经形成的主体性和身份。我们在这些小说中遇到的阶级人物要求在这些认可的参数之外仔细重新评估政治机构，并要求在福特主义社会和生产关系危机的背景下对边缘性有另一种理解。