The Contemporary British Novel Since 1980

Acknowledgements Introduction; J.Acheson & S.C.E.Ross PART I: REALISM AND OTHER -ISMS Realism, Dreams and the Unconscious in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro; F.M.Holmes Ian McEwan: Contemporary Realism and the Novel of Ideas; J.Seaboyer The Unnatural Scene: the Fiction of Irvine Welsh; A.Riach Angela Carter's Magic Realism; D.Punter Facticity, or Something Like That: The Novels of James Kelman; L.Nicoll One Nation, Oneself: Politics, Place and Identity in Martin Amis' Fiction; D.Lea PART II: POSTCOLONIALISM AND OTHER -ISMS Abdulrazak Gurnah and Hanif Kureishi: Failed Revolutions; B.King Salman Rushdie's Fathers; H.Lee Postcolonialism and 'The Figure of the Jew': Caryl Phillips and Zadie Smith; B.Moore-Gilbert Mingling and Metamorphing: Articulations of Feminism and Postcoloniality in Marina Warner's Fiction; C.Zabus PART III: FEMINISM AND OTHER -ISMS Regeneration, Redemption, Resurrection: Pat Barker and the Problem of Evil; S.C.E.Ross 'Partial to Intensity': The Novels of A. L. Kennedy; G.Norquay Gender and Creativity in the Fictions of Janice Galloway; D.McMillan Appetite, Desire and Belonging in the Novels of Rose Tremain; S.Sceats Desire for Syzygy in the Novels of A.S. Byatt; K.Tarbox Jeanette Winterson and the Lesbian Postmodern: Story-telling, Performativity and the Gay Aesthetic; P.Palmer PART IV: POSTMODERNISM AND OTHER -ISMS (Re)Constituted Pasts: Postmodern Historicism in the Novels of Graham Swift and Julian Barnes; D.Bedggood Colonising the Past: the Novels of Peter Ackroyd; D.L.Higdon Player of Games: Iain (M.) Banks, Jean François Lyotard and Sublime Terror; C.Craig Notes on Contributors