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Contemporary British Fiction

Richard Lane (Editor), Rod Mengham (Editor), Philip Tew (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-7456-2867-7
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288 pages
January 2003, Polity
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Notes on Contributors.

General Introduction: Contemporary British Fiction. (Rod Mengham).

Part I: Myth and History.

Introduction. (Richard J. Lane and Philip Tew).

1. Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy . (John Brannigan).

2. The Fiction of Jim Crace. (Richard J. Lane).

3. The Novels of Graham Swift. (Tamas Benyei).

4. The Fiction of Iain Sinclair. (Rod Mengham).

Part II: Urban Thematics.

Introduction. (Richard J. Lane and Philip Tew).

5. The Fiction of Will Self. (Liorah Anne Golomb).

6. Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia. (Anthony Ilona).

7. Zadie Smith's White Teeth. (Dominic Head).

8. The Fiction of A. L. Kennedy. (Philip Tew).

Part III: Cultural Hybridity.

Introduction. (Richard J. Lane and Philip Tew).

9. Salman Rushdie. (Stephen Baker).

10. The Fiction of James Kelman and Irvine Welsh. (Drew Milne).

11. Caryl Phillips. (Brad Buchanan).

Part IV: Pathological Subjects.

Introduction. (Richard J. Lane and Philip Tew).

12. The Fiction of Angela Carter. (Robert Eaglestone).

13. Jeanette Winterson's Evolving Subject. (Kim Middleton Meyer).

14. Kazuo Ishiguro and the Work of Art. (Mark Wormald).

15. The Fiction of Martin Amis. (James Diedrick).

Glossary of Major Theoretical Sources. (Richard J. Lane and Philip Tew).

Index.

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