Realism, Women Writers and the Contemporary British Novel

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Making the Case for Metonymic Realism 13
5. Truth Claims in the Contemporary Novel: The Authenticity Effect, Allegory, and Totality 33
6. Realism, Women Writers and the Contemporary British Novel 49
7. Ousmane Sembène’s Hybrid ‘Truth’ – Social(ist) Realism and Postcolonial Writing Back 70
8. More is Less: Representing the Planet 90
9. Ecocritical Realism: Nature, Culture, and Reality in Icelandic Environmental Literature 109
10. Exhibiting Lost Love: The Relational Realism of Things in Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence and Leanne Shapton’s Important Artifacts 124
11. Realisms in British Drama since the 1990s: Anthony Neilson’s Realism and Gregory Burke’s Black Watch 146
12. Reality and Realism in Contemporary German Theatre Performances 178
13. The Parodic Play with Realist Aesthetics and Authenticity Claims in Cheryl Dunye’s Black Queer Mockumentary The Watermelon Woman 195
14. Visual Event Realism 214
15. Appendix 227
16. Notes on Contributors 231