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)

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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)

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Graham Swift (1949-)

• Waterland (1983)
• The Last Orders (1996)
• The Light of Day (2003)

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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)

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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)