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The 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction (Paperback, Paperback)
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The 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction (Paperback, Paperback)
Series: The Decades Series
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How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the
1980s shape contemporary British fiction? Setting the fiction
squarely within the context of Conservative politics and questions
about culture and national identity, this volume reveals how the
decade associated with Thatcherism frames the work of Kazuo
Ishiguro, Martin Amis, and Graham Swift, of Scottish novelists and
new diasporic writers. How and why 1980s fiction is a response to
particular psychological, social and economic pressures is explored
in detail. Drawing on the rise of individualism and the birth of
neo-liberalism, contributors reflect on the tense relations between
1980s politics and realism, and between elegy and satire. Noting
the creation of a 'heritage industry' during the decade, the rise
of the historical novel is also considered against broader cultural
changes. Viewed from the perspective of more recent theorisations
of crisis following both 9/11 and the 21st-century financial crash,
this study makes sense of why and how writers of the 1980s
constructed fictions in response to this decade's own set of
fundamental crises.
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