03629nam 22007331c 450 991045965350332120200115203623.01-4725-4272-X1-282-52598-097866125259881-4411-1795-410.5040/9781472542724(CKB)2670000000013670(EBL)495347(OCoLC)609858447(SSID)ssj0000364548(PQKBManifestationID)12110443(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000364548(PQKBWorkID)10413457(PQKB)10246326(MiAaPQ)EBC495347(PPN)158029666(Au-PeEL)EBL495347(CaPaEBR)ebr10373293(CaONFJC)MIL252598(OCoLC)893334858(OCoLC)614410184(UtOrBLW)bpp09255860(EXLCZ)99267000000001367020140929d2010 uy 0engur|n|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPostmodern fiction and the break-up of Britain Hywel DixLondon New York Continuum 2010.1 online resource (177 p.)Continuum literary studies seriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-4411-6419-7 1-84706-407-8 Includes bibliographical references (pages [164]-167) and indexIntroduction -- 1.The Novel - and Britain - in Transition -- 2. Voyages In  -- 3.The Spatial Turn -- 4.Feminist Satires of Monarchic Culture -- 5. A Borderless World -- 6. Race, Reading and Identification -- Conclusion -- Bibliography 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 how contemporary writing in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales contributes to a sense of nationhood in those places, and so contributes to the break-up of Britain symbolically. Dix argues that the break-up of Britain is not limited to political devolution in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. It is also an imaginary process that can be found occurring on a number of other conceptual coordinates. Feminism, class, regional identities and ethnic communities are all terrains on which different writers carry out a fictional questioning of received notions of Britishness and so contribute in different ways to the break-up of BritainContinuum literary studies.English fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismLiterary studies: from c 1900 -Regionalism in literatureRegionalismGreat BritainNational characteristics, British, in literatureEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Regionalism in literature.RegionalismNational characteristics, British, in literature.823/.91409Dix Hywel Rowland943736UtOrBLWUtOrBLWUkLoBPBOOK9910459653503321Postmodern fiction and the break-up of Britain2130402UNINA