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British Fiction of the 1990s (to the present) Flashcards

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The Buddha of Suburbia

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Hanif Kureishi
- two parts: “In the suburbs” and “In the city”

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Written on the Body

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Jeanette Winterson

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England, England

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Julian Barnes

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Saturday

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Ian McEwan

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Major themes and approaches of the 1990s?

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  • Millennial anxieties
  • Identity at the fin de siècle (= end of century)
  • Historical fictions
  • Narrative geographies
  • Experimental fiction
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White Teeth

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Zadie Smith
- millenium Angst

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The Star Fraction

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Ken MacLeod
- science-fiction

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Bold as Love

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Gwyneth Jones
- science-fiction

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Bridget Jones’s Diary

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Helen Fielding
- post-feminism and anti-feminism

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The Remains of the Day

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Kazuo Ishiguro
- personal/national identity

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The Buddha of Suburbia

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Hanif Kureishi
- sexuality, gender identity

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Babel Tower

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Byatt
- post-feminism and anti-feminism

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Black Dogs

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Ian McEwan
- children, childhood, parents-children relationships

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The House of Doctor Dee, Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem

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Peter Ackroyd
- historical fiction

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Downriver; Radon Daughters

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Iain Sinclair
- psychogeography

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Time’s Arrow

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Martin Amis
- experimental fiction

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Atonement

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Ian McEwan
- children, childhood, parents-children relationships

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Regeneration, The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road (trilogy)

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Pat Barker
- Historical fictions

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