Hari Kunzru

This book is the first edited collection to focus on the work of contemporary author Hari Kunzru. It contains major new essays on each of his novels - The Impressionist Transmission My Revolutions Gods Without Men White Tears and Red Pill - as well as his short fiction and non-fiction writings. The collection situates Kunzru's work within current debates regarding postmodernism postcolonialism and post-postmodernism and examines how Kunzru's work is central to major thematic concerns of contemporary writing including whiteness national identity Britishness cosmopolitanism music space memory art practice trauma Brexit immigration covid-19 and populist politics. The book engages with current debates regarding the politics of publishing of ethnic writers examining how Kunzru has managed to shape a career in resistance of narrow labelling where many other writers have struggled to achieve long-term recognition.