Brandon Pithouse: Recollections of the Durham Coalfield - Couverture souple

Seed, John

 
9780993454707: Brandon Pithouse: Recollections of the Durham Coalfield
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0993454704 ISBN 13 : 9780993454707
Editeur : Smokestack Books, 2016

Synopsis


There were once more than a thousand men and boys worked at Brandon Pithouse in County Durham. Today the site of the colliery is a green wilderness.

John Seed has set out to recover the lost and silent world of Durham pitmen in the company of Walter Benjamin, Sid Chaplin and Charles Reznikoff. Composed of fragments of recorded speech, parliamentary reports and newspapers, Brandon Pithouse is a book about the experience of labour about the pain and danger of working underground, about the damage to the human body and about the human relationships created in such conditions. It is a study in the attachments and distances which shape our relationships to place and time, the negotiations required to reconnect ourselves to a world that ceased to exist in the 1990s. It is a set of notes for an unmade Eisenstein film and a footnote to chapter 10 of the first volume of Marx s Capital. And like any history, it is a ghost story.

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À propos de l?auteur

John Seed has written ten books of poetry, including Pictures from Mayhew, New and Selected Poems, Some Poems, 2006-12 and most recently Smoke Rising: London 1940-41.Other books include Dissenting Histories: religious division and the politics of memory in eighteenth-century England and Marx: A Guide for the Perplexed.

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Éditeur
Smokestack Books
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0993454704
ISBN 13 
9780993454707
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
100
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