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An introduction to contemporary fiction : international writing in English since 1970
- Title
- An introduction to contemporary fiction : international writing in English since 1970 / edited by Rod Mengham.
- Publication
- Cambridge : Polity Press ; Malden, MA : Blackwell, 1999.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Mengham, Rod, 1953-
- Description
- ix, 245 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to fiction in the English-speaking world during the period from 1970 to the present day. During this period, a sea change has transformed fiction in English, and this collection introduces the key developments as well as the works of some of the most important writers today. A stimulating introduction for students of contemporary fiction, this volume provides a balanced and well-informed view of various literary works and key issues in the cultural and critical agenda.
- Subject
- Commonwealth
- 1900-1999
- English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Commonwealth fiction (English) > History and criticism
- 18.05 English literature
- 18.06 Anglo-American literature
- 18.07 English literature outside Europe and the USA
- American fiction
- Commonwealth fiction (English)
- English fiction
- Englisch
- Roman
- Fictie
- Engels
- Amerikaans
- Postkolonialisme
- Littérature anglophone > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique
- Roman anglais > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique
- Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique
- Littérature anglaise > Commonwealth > Histoire et critique
- Roman
- Englisches Sprachgebiet
- USA
- USA
- Englisch
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-242) and index.
- Contents
- Constructions of identity in post-1970 experimental fiction / Kathleen M. Wheeler -- The power to tell: rape, race and writing in Afro-American women's fiction / Maud Ellman -- Looking awry: tropes of disability in post-colonial writing / Ato Quayson -- Movement in fiction / John Harvey -- The dissident imagination: Beckett's late prose fiction / Drew Milne -- The mutations of William Burroughs / Geoff Ward -- 1973 the end of history: cultural change according to Muriel Spark / Rod Mengham -- Oswald our contemporary: Don DeLillo's Libra / N.H. Reeve -- Graham Swift and the mourning after / Adrian Poole -- Mapping the margins: translation, invasion and Celtic islands in Brian Moore and John Fuller / Sophie Gilmartin -- The uses of impurity: fiction and fundamentalism in Salman Rushdie and Jeanette Winterson / Mark Wormald -- Sex, violence and complicity: Martin Amis and Ian McEwan / Kiernan Ryan -- Can fiction swear? James Kelman and the Booker Prize / Geoff Gilbert.
- ISBN
- 0745619568
- 9780745619569
- 0745619576
- 9780745619576
- LCCN
- 98046821
- 9780745619569
- OCLC
- ocm40180144
- 40180144
- SCSB-928794
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library