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The 2010s - A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction
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The 2010s - A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction
Series: The Decades Series
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This volume relates the British fiction of the decade to the
contexts in which it was written and received in order to examine
and explain contemporary trends, such as the rise of a new
working-class fiction, the ongoing development of separate national
literatures of Scotland, Wales and Ireland, and shifts in modes of
attention and reading. From the aftermath of the 2008 global
financial crash to the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, the 2010s have
been a decade of an ongoing crisis which has penetrated every area
of everyday life. Internationally, there has been an ongoing shift
of global power from the US to China, and events and developments
such as the election of Donald Trump as US President, the emergence
of the Black Lives Matter movement, the rise of the populist right
across Europe and very gradually the incipient effects variously of
AI. Nationally, there has been a decade of austerity economics
punctuated by divisive referendums on Scottish independence and
whether Britain should leave or remain in the EU. Balancing
critical surveys with in-depth readings of work by authors who have
helped define this turbulent decade, including Nicola Barker, Anna
Burns, Jonathan Coe, Alys Conran, Bernadine Evaristo, Mohsin Hamid,
James Kelman, James Robertson, Kamila Shamsie, Ali Smith, Zadie
Smith and Adam Thirlwell, among others, this volume illustrates
exactly how their key themes and concerns fit within the social and
political circumstances of the decade.
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