10.26686/wgtn.12743972.v1
Dougal McNeill
Dougal
McNeill
Bobbin Up as a Social Reproduction Text
Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
2020
Literary Studies
Historical Studies
2020-07-31 03:54:34
Journal contribution
https://openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz/articles/journal_contribution/Bobbin_Up_as_a_Social_Reproduction_Text/12743972
Reading Dorothy Hewett's Bobbin Up (1959) with the tools provided by recent advances in social reproduction theory, this essay suggests that Hewett's text develops a richer and more sophisticated account of the relations between waged and unwaged labour than previous materialist critics have acknowledged. In turn, it reads Bobbin Up for the ways Hewett's fiction can provide insights for social reproduction theorists. Hewett's novel, this essay argues, builds a specifically social-reproduction poetics.