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Hauntology - The Presence of the Past in Twenty-First Century English Literature (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Hauntology - The Presence of the Past in Twenty-First Century English Literature (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Post-millennial writings function as a useful prism through which
we can understand contemporary English culture and its compulsion
to revisit the immediate past. The critical practice of hauntology
turns to the past in order to make sense of the present, to
understand how we got to this place and how to build a better
future. Since the Year 2000, popular culture has been inundated
with representations of those who occupy a space between being and
non-being and defy ontological criteria. This Pivot explores a
range of contemporary English literatures - from the poetry of
Simon Armitage and the drama of Jez Butterworth, to the fiction of
Zadie Smith and the stories of David Peace - that collectively
unite to represent a twenty-first century world full of specters,
reminiscence and representations of spectral encounters. These
specters become visible and significant as they interact with a
range of social, political and economic discourses that continue to
speak to the contemporary period. The enduring fascination with the
spectral offers valuable insights into a contemporary English
culture in which spectral manifestations signal towards larger
social anxieties as well as to specific historical events and
recurrent cultural preoccupations. The specter confronts the
contemporary with the necessity of participation, encouraging the
realisation that we must engage with it in order to create meaning.
Narrative agency is the primary motivating force of its return, and
the repetition of the specter functions to highlight new meanings
and perspectives. Harnessing hauntology as a lens through which to
consider the specters haunting twenty-first century English
writings, this Pivot examines the emergence of a vein of
hauntological literature that profiles the pervasive presence of
the past in our new millennium.
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