Postmodern Fiction and the Break-Up of Britain

by Hywel Dix

This study explores how British identity has been explored and renegotiated by contemporary writers. It starts by examining the new emphasis on space and place that has emerged in recent cultural analysis, and shows how this spatial emphasis informs different literary texts. Having first analysed a series of novels that draw an implicit parallel between the end of the British Empire and the break-up of the unitary British state, the study explores...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847064078
• ISBN13: 9781847064073
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.3" x 9.3"