This ambitious and wide-ranging essay collection analyses how
identity and form intersect in twentieth- and twenty-first century
literature. It revises and deconstructs the binary oppositions
identity-form, content-form and body-mind through discussions of
the role of the author in the interpretation of literary texts, the
ways in which writers bypass or embrace identity politics and the
function of identity and the body in form. Essays tackle these
issues from a number of positions, including identity categories
such as (dis)ability, gender, race and sexuality, as well as
questioning these categories themselves. Essayists look at both
identity as form and form as identity. Although identity and form
are both staples of current research on contemporary literature,
they rarely meet in the way this collection allows. Authors studied
include Beryl Bainbridge, Samuel Beckett, John Berryman, Brigid
Brophy, Angela Carter, J.M. Coetzee, Anne Enright, William
Faulkner, Mark Haddon, Ted Hughes, Kazuo Ishiguro, B.S. Johnson,
A.L. Kennedy, Toby Litt, Hilary Mantel, Andrea Levy, Robert Lowell,
Ian McEwan, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Oswald, Sylvia Plath, Jeremy
Reed, Anne Sexton, Edith Sitwell, Wallace Stevens, Jeremy Reed,
Jeanette Winterson and Virginia Woolf. The book engages with key
theoretical approaches to twentieth- and twenty-first century
literature of the last twenty years while at the same time
advancing new frameworks that enable readers to reconsider the
identity and form conundrum. In both its choice of texts and
diverse approaches, it will be of interest to those working on
English and American Literatures, gender studies, queer studies,
disability studies, postcolonial literature, and literature and
philosophy.
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