Postmodern Fiction and the Break-Up of Britain: Continuum Literary Studies
Autor Dr Hywel Dixen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 noi 2011
This study explores how British identity has been explored and renegotiated by contemporary writers. It starts by examining the new emphasis on space and place that has emerged in recent cultural analysis, and shows how this spatial emphasis informs different literary texts. Having first analysed a series of novels that draw an implicit parallel between the end of the British Empire and the break-up of the unitary British state, the study explores how contemporary writing in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales contributes to a sense of nationhood in those places, and so contributes to the break-up of Britain symbolically.
Dix argues that the break-up of Britain is not limited to political devolution in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. It is also an imaginary process that can be found occurring on a number of other conceptual coordinates. Feminism, class, regional identities and ethnic communities are all terrains on which different writers carry out a fictional questioning of received notions of Britishness and so contribute in different ways to the break-up of Britain.
Dix argues that the break-up of Britain is not limited to political devolution in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. It is also an imaginary process that can be found occurring on a number of other conceptual coordinates. Feminism, class, regional identities and ethnic communities are all terrains on which different writers carry out a fictional questioning of received notions of Britishness and so contribute in different ways to the break-up of Britain.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781441164193
ISBN-10: 1441164197
Pagini: 178
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Seria Continuum Literary Studies
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1441164197
Pagini: 178
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Seria Continuum Literary Studies
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Offers indepth analysis of a topical area in literary studies - focusing on range of contemporary writers including Andrew O'Hagan, Iain Banks, J. G. Ballard, A. S. Byatt, Kate Atkinson, Julian Barnes, David Mitchell, Salman Rushdie and Monica Ali.
Notă biografică
Hywel Dix is a part-time tutor in English at the Cardiff University Centre for Lifelong Learning and works full time at a major arts centre in Cardiff, Wales Millennium Centre.
Cuprins
Introduction
1.The Novel - and Britain - in Transition
2. Voyages In
3.The Spatial Turn
4.Feminist Satires of Monarchic Culture
5. A Borderless World
6. Race, Reading and Identification
Conclusion
Bibliography
1.The Novel - and Britain - in Transition
2. Voyages In
3.The Spatial Turn
4.Feminist Satires of Monarchic Culture
5. A Borderless World
6. Race, Reading and Identification
Conclusion
Bibliography
Recenzii
'Starting from the mutually-informing perspectives of postmodernism and political devolution, this fascinating study gives shape to a new configuration of British postmodernist novelists, from Byatt and Barnes to Levy, O'Hagan, Barry and Seiffert amongst others. Dix persuasively demonstrates the self-confessed 'conjuring trick' of locating in the novels an often satirical, paradoxically 'planetary' concern with Britishness. Exciting and innovative, yet strongly grounded in a left-orientated historical analysis of postcolonial British culture that builds on the work of Raymond Williams and Tom Nairn.'