Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction: Adulting, Generational Blame and a World of Uncertainty; or The Case for the Millennial Novel 1
5. 1. ‘My generation, her generation, blah blah blah’: Forms of Generationality in the Millennial Novel 16
6. 2. Modest Temporalities: Time and Tense in Millennial Novels 33
7. 3. Dialectic Conflict and Dialogic Becoming: Millennial Authors and the (Re)Negotiation of a Queer Arab Narrative 50
8. 4. Trauma, Protest and the Dream: The Australian Millennial Novel 68
9. 5. (Queer) Passing and Diasporic Aesthetics in Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half and Kama La Mackerel’s ZOM-FAM 81
10. 6. Writing Millennial Lives at the Intersection of Class, Queerness and Refugeeism: Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous 97
11. 7. Édouard Louis: Repetition and Transformation 114
12. 8. You-Narration and Anticipatory Shame in the Millennial Novel 132
13. 9 Choosing Marriage, Choosing Motherhood: (Be)Longing as Resistance in Alice Zeniter’s Jusque dans nos bras (Take This Man) and Sophie Mackintosh’s Blue Ticket 150
14. 10. From Millennial Matrophobia to Millennial Matricide in Sophie White’s Where I End 171
15. 11. ‘I’m not a junkie or something’: Millennial Fiction’s Depressed Women and Self-Medication in Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation 185
16. 12. ‘Love is communist’: Sally Rooney and the Form of the Couple 205
17. 13. Hardly Working or Working Hard: Registering the Long Downturn in Halle Butler’s The New Me and Raven Leilani’s Luster 221
18. 14. The Work of Writing/Writing of Work in the Millennial Novel 239
19. 15. ‘Made in China’: Racial Capitalism and the Spectre of Coolie Labour in Ling Ma’s Severance 257
20. 16. Anxiety of Form: The Millennial Novel and Postsecular Politics 279
21. 17. Faith is Not beyond the Self: Reconciling Contradictory Impulses in Fatima Daas’s La Petite Dernière 299
22. 18. Desi Millennial Fiction: Refusal, Expectations and Misunderstanding in the Age of Terror 317
23. 19. After the Flood: Rising Waters as the New Normal in Millennial Ecofiction 334
24. 20. Solastalgia contra the Good Life: The Failures of Dutch Millennial Climate Fiction 349
25. Coda: What Comes after the Millennial Novel? 366
26. A Millennial Novel Bibliography 371
27. Notes on Contributors 375
28. Index 380