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Title: Contemporary British Fiction


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Contemporary British Fiction
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Key theoretical concepts and contexts
  • Postmodernism Classic
    realism
  • Postcolonialism
    National Identity,
  • Multiculturalism, Hybridity, Englishness
  • Gender
  • Politics and class
  • Youth subcultures
  • History Memory Writing

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Martin Amis (1949-)
  • The Rachel Papers (1973)
  • Dead Babies (1975)
  • Money (1984)
  • London Fields (1989)
  • Times Arrow or the Nature of the Offence (1991)
  • Night Train (1997)
  • Yellow Dog (2003)
  • The Pregnant Widow (2010)

4
Ian McEwan (1948-)
  • The Cement Garden (1978)
  • The Comfort of Strangers (1981)
  • The Child in Time (1987)
  • Black Dogs (1992)
  • Enduring Love (1997)
  • Amsterdam (1998)
  • Atonement (2001)
  • Saturday (2005)
  • On Chesil Beach (2007)

5
Graham Swift (1949-)
  • Waterland (1983)
  • The Last Orders (1996)
  • The Light of Day (2003)

6
Hanif Kureishi (1954-)
  • The Buddha of Suburbia (1991)
  • The Black Album (1995)
  • Intimacy (1998)
  • Gabriels Gift (2001)
  • The Body (2003)
  • Something to Tell You (2008)

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Kazuo Ishiguro (1954-)
  • A Pale View of Hills (1982)
  • An Artist of the Floating World (1986)
  • The Remains of the Day (1989)
  • The Uconsoled (1995)
  • When We Were Orphans (2000)
  • Never Let Me Go (2005)

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Nick Hornby (1957-)
  • Fever Pitch (1992)
  • High Fidelity (1995)
  • About a Boy (1998)
  • How to Be Good (2001)
  • Slam (2007)
  • Juliet, Naked (2009)

9
Joanthan Coe (1961-)
  • What a Carve-Up (1994)
  • The Rotters Club (2001)
  • The Closed Circle (2004)
  • The Rain Before It Falls (2007)
  • The Terribly Privacy of Maxwell Sim (2010)

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  • Zadie Smith (1975-)
  • White Teeth (2000)
  • An Autograph Man (2002)
  • On Beauty (2005)
  • Andrea Levy (1956-)
  • Small Island (2004)
  • The Long Song (2010)
  • Monica Ali (1967)
  • Brick Lane (2003)
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