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Brexlit: British Literature and the European Project
Contributor(s): Shaw, Kristian (Author)
ISBN: 1350090832     ISBN-13: 9781350090835
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
OUR PRICE:   $133.65  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: August 2021
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism | Modern - 21st Century
- Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes - Politics
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.23 lbs) 272 pages
 
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Britain's vote to leave the European Union in the summer of 2016 came as a shock to many observers. But writers had long been exploring anxieties and fractures in British society - from Euroscepticism, to immigration, to devolution, to post-truth narratives - that came to the fore in the Brexit campaign and its aftermath.
Reading these tensions back into contemporary British writing, Kristian Shaw coins the term Brexlit to deliver the first in-depth study of how writers engaged with these issues before and after the referendum result. Examining the work of over a hundred British authors, including Julian Barnes, Jonathan Coe, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ali Smith, as well as popular fiction by Andrew Marr and Stanley Johnson, Brexlit explores how a new and urgent genre of post-Brexit fiction is beginning to emerge.