Pitiful Criminals by Greg Bottoms

Author:Greg Bottoms [Bottoms, Greg; Powell, W. David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781619023864
Publisher: Counterpoint

I couldn’t win the spelling bee, though Mrs. C expected me to. That’s what I remember. There was a force—let’s call it a cultural undercurrent—holding me back, and I’ve thought a lot about this for a couple of decades now, at least since grad school, when I first read Birmingham School cultural studies critics and British working-class writers like Richard Hoggart (The Uses of Literacy) and Raymond Williams (The Country and the City). They wrote about growing up in England and Wales, but their stories of feeling lost inside of their own educational upward mobility, their painful separations from the comforts and values of their pasts and families, felt like my story. Actually, it was my story.

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