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The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel
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The first Companion to comprehensively analyse millennial fiction
- Offers a global framework for thinking about the dominant forms and preoccupations of writing by millennial authors
- Brings together emerging and established scholars from literary and cultural studies
- Engages with major theoretical developments—in queer studies, post-colonial studies, affect studies, narratology, race studies, etc.—to better understand the genre and millennial sociality
The ‘millennial novel’ is a term and genre that is at once over-debated and under-examined. As the first major book to survey and map out the millennial novel across multiple countries, this Companion offers a global framework for thinking about the dominant forms and preoccupations of writing by millennial authors. Scholars of contemporary literature will benefit from its breadth of investigation – across issues of race, gender, sexuality, class, family, social structures, nationhood and literary form – as well as its detailed studies of particular novels and authors, including Brit Bennett, Ocean Vuong, Ottessa Moshfegh, Sally Rooney, Raven Leilani and Ling Ma. Overall, The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel shows that millennial fiction is neither homogeneous nor impervious to previous socio-literary movements. In turn, it complicates our understanding of the genre, attempts to define the contours of contemporary literary production and reflects on twenty-first-century sociality.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction: Adulting, Generational Blame and a World of Uncertainty; or The Case for the Millennial Novel
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1. ‘My generation, her generation, blah blah blah’: Forms of Generationality in the Millennial Novel
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2. Modest Temporalities: Time and Tense in Millennial Novels
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3. Dialectic Conflict and Dialogic Becoming: Millennial Authors and the (Re)Negotiation of a Queer Arab Narrative
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4. Trauma, Protest and the Dream: The Australian Millennial Novel
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5. (Queer) Passing and Diasporic Aesthetics in Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half and Kama La Mackerel’s ZOM-FAM
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6. Writing Millennial Lives at the Intersection of Class, Queerness and Refugeeism: Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
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7. Édouard Louis: Repetition and Transformation
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8. You-Narration and Anticipatory Shame in the Millennial Novel
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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
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10. From Millennial Matrophobia to Millennial Matricide in Sophie White’s Where I End
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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
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12. ‘Love is communist’: Sally Rooney and the Form of the Couple
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13. Hardly Working or Working Hard: Registering the Long Downturn in Halle Butler’s The New Me and Raven Leilani’s Luster
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14. The Work of Writing/Writing of Work in the Millennial Novel
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15. ‘Made in China’: Racial Capitalism and the Spectre of Coolie Labour in Ling Ma’s Severance
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16. Anxiety of Form: The Millennial Novel and Postsecular Politics
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17. Faith is Not beyond the Self: Reconciling Contradictory Impulses in Fatima Daas’s La Petite Dernière
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18. Desi Millennial Fiction: Refusal, Expectations and Misunderstanding in the Age of Terror
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19. After the Flood: Rising Waters as the New Normal in Millennial Ecofiction
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20. Solastalgia contra the Good Life: The Failures of Dutch Millennial Climate Fiction
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Coda: What Comes after the Millennial Novel?
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A Millennial Novel Bibliography
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Notes on Contributors
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Index
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August 26, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9781399516952
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392
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Keywords for this book
Millennials; contemporary fiction; transnational literature; generational novel; diversity; cultural fragmentation
Audience(s) for this book
For universities and colleges of further and higher education
