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Postmodern Fiction and the Break-up of Britain

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This is a monograph analysing the symbolic role played by contemporary fiction in the break-up of political and cultural consensus in British public life. 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 series of novels that draw an implicit parallel between the end of the British Empire and the break-up of the unitary British state, the study explores how contemporary writing in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales contributes to a sense of nationhood in those places, and so contributes to the break-up of Britain symbolically. Dix argues that the break-up of Britain is not limited to political devolution in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. It is also an imaginary process that can be found occurring on a number of other conceptual coordinates. Feminism, class, regional identities and ethnic communities are all terrains on which different writers carry out a fictional questioning of received notions of Britishness and so contribute in different ways to the break-up of Britain.

Author Biography

Hywel Dix is a part-time tutor in English at the Cardiff University Centre for Lifelong Learning and works full time at a major arts centre in Cardiff, Wales Millennium Centre.
Release date NZ
March 4th, 2010
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Audience
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Imprint
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Pages
192
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Dimensions
156x234x18
ISBN-13
9781847064073
Product ID
3719730

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