1990s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction

<p>How did social cultural and political events in Britain during the 1990s shape contemporary British Fiction? <p/> From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the turn of the millennium the 1990s witnessed a realignment of global politics. Against the changing international scene this volume uses events abroad and in Britain to examine and explain the changes taking place in British fiction including: the celebration of national identities fuelled by the move toward political devolution in Northern Ireland Scotland and Wales; the literary optimism in urban ethnic fictions written by a new generation of authors born and raised in Britain; the popularity of neo-Victorian fiction. <p/> Critical surveys are balanced by in-depth readings of work by the authors who defined the decade including A.S. Byatt Hanif Kureishi Will Self Caryl Phillips and Irvine Welsh: an approach that illustrates exactly how their key themes and concerns fit within the social and political circumstances of the decade.</p>