Literature and The Contemporary: Fictions and Theories of the Present: Longman Studies In Twentieth Century Literature
Autor Roger Luckhurst, Peter Marksen Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 iul 2016
The essays in the book survey theories of temporality from various cultural and philosophical standpoints, and represent critics writing from feminist, postcolonial and `queer' perspectives discussing literature in `our time'. The collection addresses such central issues as the politics of memory, colonial legacies, women's time, racial and sexual identities in the 1990s, and covers a wide range of contemporary authors, works and issues, some of which are treated for the first time. Among the contemporary works discussed are the prize-winning books Graham Swift's Last Orders, Anne Michaels' Fugitive Pieces, and Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres.
While discussing some of the most significant novels of the 1990s, this collection also offers a diverse yet cohesive critique of the millennial leanings of much `postmodernist' criticism, which it argues should be replaced by more variously nuanced engagements with literature and the contemporary.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781138172692
ISBN-10: 1138172693
Pagini: 226
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Longman Studies In Twentieth Century Literature
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1138172693
Pagini: 226
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Longman Studies In Twentieth Century Literature
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1. Hurry Up Please It's Time: Introducing the Contemporary PART ONE: TIME TODAY 2. The Impossibility of the Present; Or, form the Contemporary to the Contemporal 3. The Politics of Time Modernity, Postmodernity 4. Now, Here, This 5. Melancholic Modernity and Contemporary Greif: The Novels of Graham Swift Memory 6. Memory Recovered/Recovered Memory 7. `We come after': Remembering the Holocaust PART TWO: INTERSECTION The Post-colonial contemporary 8. The Rhizome of Post-Colonial Discourse 9. The Dialect of Myth and History in the Post-Colonial Contemporary: Soyinka's `A Dance of the Forests' Feminism 10. The Gender Differential, Again and Not Yet 11. Back to the Future: Revisiting Kristeva's `Women's Time' Queering Now 12. Crossing the Present, Narrative, Alterity and Gender in Postmodern Fiction 13. A Queer Spirit of the Times Index
Descriere
This new book provides, through twelve essays, evidence of the way in which the literature of the 1990s is constantly engaging in questions of memory and history and the representation of time in the present day. The essays survey theories of temporality from various cultural and philosophical standpoints, and represent critics writing from feminist, postcolonial and 'queer' perspectives discussing literature in 'our time'. The collection addresses such central issues as the politics of memory, colonial legacies, women's time, racial and sexual identities in the 1990s, and covers a wide range of contemporary authors, works and issues, some of which are treated for the first time. Among the contemporary works discussed are the prize-winning books Graham Swift's Last Orders, Anne Michaels' Fugitive Pieces, and Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres. While discussing some of the most significant novels of the 1990s, this collection also offers a diverse yet cohesive critique of the millennial leanings of much 'postmodernist' criticism, which it argues should be replaced by more variously nuanced engagements with literature and the contemporary.