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Literature and The Contemporary - Fictions and Theories of the Present (Paperback)
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Literature and The Contemporary - Fictions and Theories of the Present (Paperback)
Series: Longman Studies In Twentieth Century Literature
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At the end of the century, much criticism has become devoted to
`last things': the end of history, the end of the subject, the end
of the novel, the end, even, of the end. Literature and the
Contemporary, in contrast, aims to provide through twelve essays
evidence of the way in which the literature of the 1990s is
constantly engaging in questions of memory and history and the
representation of time in the present day. The essays in the book
survey theories of temporality from various cultural and
philosophical standpoints, and represent critics writing from
feminist, postcolonial and `queer' perspectives discussing
literature in `our time'. The collection addresses such central
issues as the politics of memory, colonial legacies, women's time,
racial and sexual identities in the 1990s, and covers a wide range
of contemporary authors, works and issues, some of which are
treated for the first time. Among the contemporary works discussed
are the prize-winning books Graham Swift's Last Orders, Anne
Michaels' Fugitive Pieces, and Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres.
While discussing some of the most significant novels of the 1990s,
this collection also offers a diverse yet cohesive critique of the
millennial leanings of much `postmodernist' criticism, which it
argues should be replaced by more variously nuanced engagements
with literature and the contemporary.
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