Literature and The Contemporary: Fictions and Theories of the Present

ISBN-13: 9780582312043 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 226 str.

Roger Luckhurst; Peter Marks

Opis

Aims to provide 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. Included are essays on key texts of the 1990s, from Graham Swift's "Last Orders" to Jane Smiley's "A Thousand Acres".

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  Notes on Contributors  1. Hurry Up Please It's Time: Introducing the Contemporary  PART ONE: TIME TODAY  2. The Impossibility of the Present; Or, form the Contemporary to the Contemporal  3. The Politics of Time  Modernity, Postmodernity  4. Now, Here, This  5. Melancholic Modernity and Contemporary Greif: The Novels of Graham Swift  Memory  6. Memory Recovered/Recovered Memory  7. `We come after': Remembering the Holocaust  PART TWO: INTERSECTION  The Post-colonial contemporary  8. The Rhizome of Post-Colonial Discourse  9. The Dialect of Myth and History in the Post-Colonial Contemporary: Soyinka's `A Dance of the Forests'  Feminism  10. The Gender Differential, Again and Not Yet  11. Back to the Future: Revisiting Kristeva's `Women's Time'  Queering Now  12. Crossing the Present, Narrative, Alterity and Gender in Postmodern Fiction  13. A Queer Spirit of the Times  Index

O autorze

Roger Luckhurst teaches in the Department of English, at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Peter Marks teaches in the Department of English at the University of Sydney, Australia.