“There Was An Old Lady, She’s Dead”: Reflections on Britishness, Englishness, and What We Do Well

Douglas, Kitrina (2023) “There Was An Old Lady, She’s Dead”: Reflections on Britishness, Englishness, and What We Do Well. Cultural Studies: Critical Methodologies, 23 (6).

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Abstract

Disturbed and distanced by the media’s entrenched narrative that a funeral and pageantry is what we do well (in the United Kingdom), this performance uses the framing of the children’s rhyme, I know an old lady who swallowed a fly to interrogate social identities through aspects of culture that cements a vision of Britain that is archaic, hegemonic, elitist, and upholds a class system alongside lesser well-known values that tell a different story.

Item Type: Article
Identifier: 10.1177/15327086231196306
Subjects: Social sciences > Communication and culture
Depositing User: Marc Forster
Date Deposited: 16 Sep 2024 07:55
Last Modified: 16 Sep 2024 08:00
URI: https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/12446

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