Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Acknowledgements v
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Realism and other -isms
6. 1. Realism, Dreams and the Unconscious in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro 11
7. 2. Ian McEwan: Contemporary Realism and the Novel of Ideas 23
8. 3. The Unnatural Scene: The Fiction of Irvine Welsh 35
9. 4. Angela Carter’s Magic Realism 48
10. 5. Facticity, or Something Like That: The Novels of James Kelman 59
11. 6. One Nation, Oneself: Politics, Place and Identity in Martin Amis’ Fiction 70
12. Part II: Postcolonialism and other -isms
13. 7. Abdulrazak Gurnah and Hanif Kureishi: Failed Revolutions 85
14. 8. Salman Rushdie’s Fathers 95
15. 9. Postcolonialism and ‘The Figure of the Jew’: Caryl Phillips and Zadie Smith 106
16. 10. Mingling and Metamorphing: Articulations of Feminism and Postcoloniality in Marina Warner’s Fiction 118
17. Part III: Feminism and other -isms
18. 11. Regeneration, Redemption, Resurrection: Pat Barker and the Problem of Evil 131
19. 12. ‘Partial to Intensity’: The Novels of A. L. Kennedy 142
20. 13. Gender and Creativity in the Fictions of Janice Galloway 154
21. 14. Appetite, Desire and Belonging in the Novels of Rose Tremain 165
22. 15. Desire for Syzygy in the Novels of A. S. Byatt 177
23. 16 Jeanette Winterson and the Lesbian Postmodern: Story-telling, Performativity and the Gay Aesthetic 189
24. Part IV: Postmodernism and other -isms
25. 17. (Re)Constituted Pasts: Postmodern Historicism in the Novels of Graham Swift and Julian Barnes 203
26. 18. Colonising the Past: The Novels of Peter Ackroyd 217
27. 19. Player of Games: Iain (M.) Banks, Jean-François Lyotard and Sublime Terror 229
28. Notes on Contributors 240
29. Index 245