Identity and form in contemporary literature /
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New York :
London : Routledge/Taylor &Francis Group,
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| Series: | Routledge studies in contemporary literature ;
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Table of Contents:
- Identity and form in contemporary literature: an introduction / Ana María Sánchez-Arce
- Part I. Beyond Identity and Form: 1. Official identity and clandestine experience / Thomas Docherty; 2. "To be engulfed by you": the pull of alienation in narcissistic narratives of the Sixties / Karen Zouaoui; 3. Literature in process: Deleuzian dynamics in the fiction of A.L. Kennedy and Toby Litt / Lucy Prodgers; 4. History's subjects: forming the nation in Andrea Levy's Small island / Ranu Samantrai
- Part II. Formal Prescriptions and Identity Politics: 5. From the "other side": mimicry and feminist rewriting in the novels of Beryl Bainbridge / Huw Marsh; 6. Affect and authorial performance in Angela Carter's "feminist" fiction / Michelle Ryan-Sautour; 7. The role of Jeanette Winterson's sexual identity in the academic reception of her work / Zita Farkas; 8. Why Kazuo Ishiguro is stuck to the margins: formal identities in contemporary literary interpretations / Ana María Sánchez-Arce; 9. "Not yet not yet...": forms of defiance, forms of excess in the poetry of Alice Oswald / Kym Martindale
- Part III. Physical Forms, Formal Identities: 10. The confessional other: identity, form, origins in confessional poetry / Marsha Bryant; 11. Writing the self into being: illness and identity in Inga Clendinnen's Tiger's eye and Hilary Mantel's Giving up the ghost / Amy Prodromou; 12. Materiality and manipulation: trauma, narrative and the body in Anne Enright's The gathering / Ulrike Tancke; 13. Queer early modern temporalities and the sexual dystopia of biography and patronage in Jeremy Reed's The grid / Goran Stanivukovic; 14. From Virginia's sister to Friday's silence: presence, metaphor, and the persistence of disability in contemporary writing / Stuart Murray.