Contemporary Crisis Fictions

This book offers a significant statement about the contemporary British novel in relation to three authors: Graham Swift, Ian McEwan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. All writing at the forefront of a generation, these authors sought to resuscitate the novel's ethico-political credentials, at a time which did not seem conducive to such a project.

Autorentext
Emily Horton is a Visiting Lecturer in English Literature at Brunel University, UK. Her research interests include contemporary British and American fiction, specialising in space and place; contemporary genre and popular fiction; trauma fiction; and cosmopolitan fictions. She is currently co-editing a volume with Philip Tew and Leigh Wilson entitled 1980: A Decade in Contemporary Fiction, and another with Monica Germana on Ali Smith.

Inhalt
Introduction: Contemporary Crisis Fiction: A New Approach to the Writing of Graham Swift, Ian McEwan, and Kazuo Ishiguro 1. Contemporary Crisis Fiction: Constructing a New Genre 2. Curiosity and Civilisation: Reassessments of History in the Fiction of Graham Swift. 3. Reassessing the Two-Culture Debate: Popular Science in the Fiction of Ian McEwan 4. Shifting Perspectives and Alternate Landscapes: Culture and Cultural Politics in the Fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro Epilogue: A Review of Contemporary Crisis Fiction with an Emphasis on Overlap Between the Works at a Discursive Level Bibliography Index