An Introduction to Contemporary Fiction: International Writing in English since 1970 / Edition 1

by Rod Mengham

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780745619576
Publisher:	Polity Press
Publication date:	08/03/1999
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.05(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Rod Mengham is Lecturer in Faculty of English, University of Cambridge and Director of Studies in English, Jesus College, Cambridge

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors.

Introduction: Rod Mengham.

Part I: Issues:.

1. Constructions of Identity in Post-1970 Experimental Fiction: Kathleen M. Wheeler.

2. The Power to Tell: Rape, Race and Writing in Afro-American Women's Fiction: Maud Ellmann.

3. Looking Awry: Tropes of Disability in Post-colonial Writing: Ato Quayson.

4. Movement in Fiction: John Harvey.

Part II: Key Texts and Authors: .

5. The Dissident Imagination: Beckett's Late Prose Fiction: Drew Milne.

6. The Mutations of William Burroughs: Geoff Ward.

7. 1973 The End of History: Cultural Change According to Muriel Spark: Rod Mengham.

8. Oswald our Contemporary: Don DeLillo's Libra: N. H. Reeve.

9. Graham Swift and the Mourning After: Adrian Poole.

10. Mapping the Margins: Translation, Invasion and Celtic Islands in Brian Moore and John Fuller: Sophie Gilmartin.

11. The Uses of Impurity: Fiction and Fundamentalism in Salman Rushdie and Jeanette Winterson: Mark Wormald.

12. Sex, Violence and Complicity: Martin Amis and Ian McEwan: Kiernan Ryan.

13. Can Fiction Swear? James Kelman and the Booker Prize: Geoff Gilbert.

Bibliography.

Index.