Literature and The Contemporary: Fictions and Theories of the Present by Peter M

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This 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.

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Aims to provide 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. Included are essays on key texts of the 1990s, from Graham Swift's "Last Orders" to Jane Smiley's "A Thousand Acres". The text addresses central contemporary issues such as the politics of memory, colonial legacies, women's time and racial and sexual identities in the 1990s.

Back Cover

Back Cover Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature General Editor: Stan Smith Research Professor in Literary Studies, Nottingham Trent University This exciting series provides students of twentieth-century literature with some of the most advanced scholarly and critical work in the field in a lucid and accessible form. Volumes may focus on an individual author or literary movement or address critical and cultural themes and historical moments. The series assumes no particular critical line or theoretical tendency but aims to present the best writing on twentieth-century literature and culture by new and established critics in a way which reveals the remarkable diversity of modern critical approaches. At the end of the century, much criticism has become devoted to

Author Biography

Roger Luckhurst is Senior Lecturer in English at Birbeck College, University of London.

Table of Contents

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

Long Description

At the end of the century, much criticism has become devoted to 'last things': the end of history, the end of the subject, the end of the novel, the end, even, of the end. Literature and the Contemporary , in contrast, aims to provide 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 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.

Details ISBN0582312043 Author Roger Luckhurst Year 1999 ISBN-10 0582312043 ISBN-13 9780582312043 Format Paperback Publication Date 1999-06-09 Subtitle Fictions and Theories of the Present Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 809.3 Illustrations black & white illustrations Edited by Peter Marks Media Book Short Title LITERATURE & TH -NOP/024 Language English Affiliation Birkbeck College, University of London Series Longman Studies In Twentieth Century Literature Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Pages 226 DOI 10.1604/9780582312043 Audience College/Higher Education UK Release Date 1999-06-09 AU Release Date 1999-06-09 NZ Release Date 1999-06-09 We've got this

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