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An Introduction to Contemporary Fiction: International Writing in English since 1970

Rod Mengham (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-7456-1957-6
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256 pages
August 1999, Polity
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Notes on Contributors.

Introduction: Rod Mengham.

Part I: Issues:.

1. Constructions of Identity in Post-1970 Experimental Fiction: Kathleen M. Wheeler.

2. The Power to Tell: Rape, Race and Writing in Afro-American Women's Fiction: Maud Ellmann.

3. Looking Awry: Tropes of Disability in Post-colonial Writing: Ato Quayson.

4. Movement in Fiction: John Harvey.

Part II: Key Texts and Authors: .

5. The Dissident Imagination: Beckett's Late Prose Fiction: Drew Milne.

6. The Mutations of William Burroughs: Geoff Ward.

7. 1973 The End of History: Cultural Change According to Muriel Spark: Rod Mengham.

8. Oswald our Contemporary: Don DeLillo's Libra: N. H. Reeve.

9. Graham Swift and the Mourning After: Adrian Poole.

10. Mapping the Margins: Translation, Invasion and Celtic Islands in Brian Moore and John Fuller: Sophie Gilmartin.

11. The Uses of Impurity: Fiction and Fundamentalism in Salman Rushdie and Jeanette Winterson: Mark Wormald.

12. Sex, Violence and Complicity: Martin Amis and Ian McEwan: Kiernan Ryan.

13. Can Fiction Swear? James Kelman and the Booker Prize: Geoff Gilbert.

Bibliography.

Index.

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