Postmodern fiction and the break-up of Britain / Hywel Dix.

This study explores how British identity has been explored and renegotiated by contemporary writers. It starts by examining the new emphasis on space and place that has emerged in recent cultural analysis, and shows how this spatial emphasis informs different literary texts. Having first analysed a...

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Main Author: Dix, Hywel Rowland
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2010.
Series:Continuum literary studies.
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505 0 |a Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One: The Novel -- and Britain -- in Transition; Chapter Two: Voyages In; Chapter Three: High Rise; Chapter Four: Feminist Satires of Monarchic Culture; Chapter Five: A Borderless World; Chapter Six: Race, Reading and Identification; Conclusion: Break-Up or Make-Up?; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W. 
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