The Cambridge Companion to British Postmodern FictionBran NicolLabel: Cambridge University PressDescription: Postmodern modes of writing have contributed to a rich tradition of innovative and memorable British fiction in the period stretching from the late twentieth century to the present day. Postmodernism has been dismissed as introspective or ahistorical but its British incarnation demonstrates how compassionate political and socially conscious it can be. This volume provides fresh accessible readings of the most influential examples of postmodern British fiction – and work by more recent post-millennial writers working in its slipstream. It plots its emergence reassesses its highpoint in the 1980s and 1990s and delineates its legacy in the twenty-first century. A valuable resource for students researchers and the general reader this Companion provides powerful critical frameworks to understand its geographies; its relationship to North American postmodernism; its renovation of literary forms such as the romance speculative fiction and the historical novel; and its vibrant engagements with race gender sexuality and questions of national identity.
