{"product_id":"literature-and-the-contemporary","title":"Literature and The Contemporary","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the end of the century, much criticism has become devoted to `last things': the end of history, the end of the subject, the end of the novel, the end, even, of the end. \u003ci\u003eLiterature and the Contemporary\u003c\/i\u003e, in contrast, aims to provide through twelve essays evidence of the way in which the literature of the 1990s is constantly engaging in questions of memory and history and the representation of time in the present day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe essays in the book survey theories of temporality from various cultural and philosophical standpoints, and represent critics writing from feminist, postcolonial and `queer' perspectives discussing literature in `our time'. The collection addresses such central issues as the politics of memory, colonial legacies, women's time, racial and sexual identities in the 1990s, and covers a wide range of contemporary authors, works and issues, some of which are treated for the first time. Among the contemporary works discussed are the prize-winning books Graham Swift's \u003ci\u003eLast Orders\u003c\/i\u003e, Anne Michaels' \u003ci\u003eFugitive Pieces\u003c\/i\u003e, and Jane Smiley's \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Acres\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile discussing some of the most significant novels of the 1990s, this collection also offers a diverse yet cohesive critique of the millennial leanings of much `postmodernist' criticism, which it argues should be replaced by more variously nuanced engagements with literature and the contemporary.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54235286503768,"sku":"9781138172692","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781138172692.jpg?v=1777262434","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/literature-and-the-contemporary","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}