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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I. Four Voices for the New Millennium -- 1. Ian McEwan: Lies and Deceptions -- 2. David Mitchell: Global Novelist of the Twenty-First Century -- 3. Hilary Mantel: Raising the Dead, Speaking the Truth -- 4. Zadie Smith: The Geographies of Marriage -- Part II. Realism and Beyond -- 5. Maggie O'Farrell: Discoveries at the Edge -- 6. Sarah Hall: A New Kind of Storytelling -- 7. A. L. Kennedy: Giving and Receiving -- 8. Alan Warner: Timeless Realities -- Part III. Postmodernism, Globalisation and Beyond -- 9. Ali Smith: Strangers and Intrusions -- 10. Kazuo Ishiguro: Alternate Histories -- 11. Kate Atkinson: Plotting to Be Read -- 12. Salman Rushdie: Archival Modernism -- Part IV Realism, Postmodernism and Beyond: Historical Fiction -- 13. Adam Foulds: Fictions of Past and Present -- 14. Sarah Waters: Representing Marginal Groups and Individuals -- 15. James Robertson: In the Margins of History -- Part V. Postcolonialism and Beyond -- 16. Mohsin Hamid: The Transnational Novel of Globalisation -- 17. Andrea Levy: The SS Empire Windrush and After -- 18. Aminatta Forna: Truth, Trauma, Memory -- Notes on Contributors -- Index Focuses on the novels published since 2000 by twenty major British novelistsThe Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 is divided into five parts, with the first part examining the work of four particularly well-known and highly regarded twenty-first century writers: Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith. It is with reference to each of these novelists in turn that the terms 'realist', 'postmodernist', 'historical' and 'postcolonialist' fiction are introduced, while in the remaining four parts, other novelists are discussed and the meaning of the terms amplified. From the start it is emphasised that these terms and others often mean different things to different novelists, and that the complexity of their novels often obliges us to discuss their work with reference to more than one of the terms.Also discusses the works of: Maggie O'Farrell, Sarah Hall, A.L. Kennedy, Alan Warner, Ali Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kate Atkinson, Salman Rushdie, Adam Foulds, Sarah Waters, James Robertson, Mohsin Hamid, Andrea Levy, and Aminatta Forna
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