Contemporary British Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contemporary British Fiction write by Nick Bentley. This book was released on 2008-08-27. Contemporary British Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This critical guide introduces major novelists and themes in British fiction from 1975 to 2005. It engages with concepts such as postmodernism, feminism, gender and the postcolonial, and examines the place of fiction within broader debates in contemporary culture.A comprehensive Introduction provides a historical context for the study of contemporary British fiction by detailing significant social, political and cultural events. This is followed by five chapters organised around the core themes: (1) Narrative Forms, (2) Contemporary Ethnicities, (3) Gender and Sexuality, (4) History, Memory and Writing, and (5) Narratives of Cultural Space.
A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction
A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction write by James F. English. This book was released on 2008-04-15. A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction offers an authoritative overview of contemporary British fiction in its social, political, and economic contexts. Focuses on the fiction that has emerged since the late 1970s, roughly since the start of the Thatcher era. Comprises original essays from major scholars. Topics range from the rise and fall of the postcolonial novel to controversies over the celebrity author. The emphasis is on the whole fiction scene, from bookstores and prizes to the changing economics of film adaptation. Enables students to read contemporary works of British fiction with a much clearer sense of where they fit within British cultural life.
Rethinking Race and Identity in Contemporary British Fiction
Rethinking Race and Identity in Contemporary British Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking Race and Identity in Contemporary British Fiction write by Sara Upstone. This book was released on 2016-10-04. Rethinking Race and Identity in Contemporary British Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book takes a post-racial approach to the representation of race in contemporary British fiction, re-imagining studies of race and British literature away from concerns with specific racial groups towards a more sophisticated analysis of the contribution of a broad, post-racial British writing. Examining the work of writers from a wide range of diverse racial backgrounds, the book illustrates how contemporary British fiction, rather than merely reflecting social norms, is making a radical contribution towards the possible future of a positively multi-ethnic and post-racial Britain. This is developed by a strategic use of the realist form, which becomes a utopian device as it provides readers with a reality beyond current circumstances, yet one which is rooted within an identifiable world. Speaking to the specific contexts of British cultural politics, and directly connecting with contemporary debates surrounding race and identity in Britain, the author engages with a wide range of both mainstream and neglected authors, including Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith, Julian Barnes, John Lanchester, Alan Hollinghurst, Martin Amis, Jon McGregor, Andrea Levy, Bernardine Evaristo, Hanif Kureishi, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hari Kunzru, Nadeem Aslam, Meera Syal, Jackie Kay, Maggie Gee, and Neil Gaiman. This cutting-edge volume explores how contemporary fiction is at the centre of re-thinking how we engage with the question of race in twenty-first-century Britain.
Contemporary British Novel Since 2000
Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 write by James Acheson. This book was released on 2017-01-17. Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focuses on the novels published since 2000 by twenty major British novelistsThe Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 is divided into five parts, with the first part examining the work of four particularly well-known and highly regarded twenty-first century writers: Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith. It is with reference to each of these novelists in turn that the terms arealist, apostmodernist, ahistorical and apostcolonialist fiction are introduced, while in the remaining four parts, other novelists are discussed and the meaning of the terms amplified. From the start it is emphasised that these terms and others often mean different things to different novelists, and that the complexity of their novels often obliges us to discuss their work with reference to more than one of the terms.Also discusses the works of: Maggie OFarrell, Sarah Hall, A.L. Kennedy, Alan Warner, Ali Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kate Atkinson, Salman Rushdie, Adam Foulds, Sarah Waters, James Robertson, Mohsin Hamid, Andrea Levy, and Aminatta Forna.
Contemporary British Fiction
Contemporary British Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contemporary British Fiction write by Richard Lane. This book was released on 2003-01-31. Contemporary British Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This important new book provides a comprehensive introduction to British fiction from 1979 to the present. The volume outlines the main developments in contemporary fiction and engages with key themes such as cultural identity, gender, myth and history, postcolonialism and urban culture. In a series of lively and accessible essays, key critics introduce a broad range of leading British writers, including Salman Rushdie, Jeanette Winterson, Will Self, Pat Barker, Kazuo Ishiguro, Martin Amis and Zadie Smith. Offering an illuminating analysis and contextualiztion of British fiction today, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of contemporary literature.
