Imminent, and not transcendent. Born into something, particularly if you are lower on the totem pole.

Class itself engages in discussions of imminence and transcendence. Performativity has been classified. Is now a stamp on the novel. Identity is not inherent, but is constructed. Tends to evacuate historical context. Retrospective voice. Emergent reckonings. Commenting on peoples performative capabilities. Self-reflexive commentary on performance, of characters, switchback of young and mature voice. Theres this concept of getting ahead in life, which arcs towards 1979 with the appearance of Margaret Thatcher, who opens up capital markets, who denationalizes industry, and turns to a capitalist economy, which is good for Britain, but its brought this massive change to class interaction in Britain, and to who gets ahead and how. For those who think in just an economic model, thats the true believers, that you live this way to have a progressive and always burgeoning society. Investigates social identities and the pressures on the force of human, the material sense of how you keep up in this world which has refractive rebounding effects on a sense of self. Class and self. Performance as a way to keep up. Disengaged from political action. About the Dollar, but not about Class. Puncturing of left-wing ideology around mutlticultural issues A changing Britain in which racial identifications and longstanding issues of Englishness in which class was rigid and gave people senses of place, particular working class identities, was expose for crises. Left, no longer labour, left, becoming the upper middle class, with open social policies, but conservative economic policies. Maggie Thatcher died ding dong the witch is dead Rolling blackouts in the nation throughout the early seventies Unions were extraordinarily strong in the UK Long inheritances of working class were at the time instantiated, Thatcher broke the Unions. Falkland Islands. The death of Diana was a very low point for where the hierarchy was going. 1994 new labour Tony Blair took labour imprint and pressure and influence and changed it Britain had to be hip, but not in old ways of class baggage and racial baggage London today is ~50% nonwhite. Investigate Charlie Identity changes with time, and changes with ages, generational change, Charlie has a late 60s, early 70s feel to me, ambitious character who wants to move up the ladder, and what is he willing to do to get there, desperation to make something of himself, Charlie wants Karim to be the witness to his performance. Natural parts of culture are entrapment Immigration can intensify conservative patternings, thinking about parental atseaness

Family reflectiveness, children repeat us The new America Every generation finds footing contextually Different siblings will choose different narratives of selfhood We see Karim and his brother as the half-bloods interacting with Answargita, Jamila, and father, as the only fullblooded Indians, because they are not accepted into the bubble, because the father is the blood traitor, Monica Ally