Community in Contemporary British Fiction

Community in Contemporary British Fiction

From Blair to Brexit

Upstone, Sara; Ely, Peter

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

05/2024

240

Mole

Inglês

9781350244061

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Introduction
Peter Ely and Sara Upstone, Introduction: 'Rewriting Community in an Age of Crisis and Nostalgia'.

Section One: National Community
1. Robert Eaglestone, '"The little links are broke": Ethnocentrism, Englishness and Loneliness in Contemporary Political Science, Political Theory and Contemporary British Fiction'.

2. Alison Garden, '"Our uneasy mixed community": Cross-community Romance, Magic Realism and Northern Ireland'.
3. Timothy Baker, 'Incomers and Settlers: Nomadism and Entanglement in Contemporary Scottish Fiction'.

Section Two: Speculative Community
4. Peter Ely, 'Beyond the Multicultural: Queer Community in Jackie Kay's Trumpet'.
5. Caroline Lusin, 'Neoliberalism and (Sub)Urban Identities in 21st-Century London Novels'.
6. Devon Campbell-Hall, 'Writing Othered Asian British Skins: Interrogating Racism in Fictional Asian British Communities'.

Section Three: Precarious Community
7. Kristian Shaw, 'Performing the Nation: A Disunited Kingdom in Jonathan Coe's Middle England'.
8. Emily Horton, '"Why would you play a game like that?": Community and the Pandemic in Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun'.
9. Sara Upstone, 'Even the Ghosts: Community in the Wake'.
identity; race; gender; Brexit; Covid-19; class; British politics; contemporary British identity; divided communities; minority communities; British nationalism; community action; activism; grassroots activism