Britain's vote to leave the European Union in the summer of 2016 came as a shock to many observers. But writers had long been exploring anxieties and fractures in British society - from Euroscepticism, to immigration, to devolution, to post-truth narratives - that came to the fore in the Brexit campaign and its aftermath.
Reading these tensions back into contemporary British writing, Kristian Shaw coins the term Brexlit to deliver the first in-depth study of how writers engaged with these issues before and after the referendum result. Examining the work of over a hundred British authors, including Julian Barnes, Jonathan Coe, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ali Smith, as well as popular fiction by Andrew Marr and Stanley Johnson, Brexlit explores how a new and urgent genre of post-Brexit fiction is beginning to emerge.
| ISBN: | 9781350225817 |
| Publication date: | 23rd March 2023 |
| Author: | Kristian Shaw |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 272 pages |
| Series: | 21st Century Genre Fiction Series |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary studies: postcolonial literature Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |
Britain's vote to leave the European Union in the summer of 2016 came as a shock to many observers. But writers had long been exploring anxieties and fractures in British society - from Euroscepticism, to immigration, to devolution, to post-truth narratives - that came to the fore in the Brexit campaign and its aftermath.
Brexlit features in the following genres: Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
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Brexlit was written by Kristian Shaw and published by Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Brexlit has 272 pages
Yes it is part of 21st Century Genre Fiction Series series
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