"The Routledge Companion To Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction | Literature

The study of contemporary fiction is a fascinating yet challenging one. Contemporary fiction has immediate relevance to popular culture the news scholarly organizations and education – where it is found on the syllabus in schools and universities – but it also offers challenges. What is ‘contemporary’? How do we track cultural shifts and changes? The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction takes on this challenge mapping key literary trends from the year 2000 onwards as the landscape of our century continues to take shape around us. A significant and central intervention into contemporary literature this Companion offers essential coverage of writers who have risen to prominence since then such as Hari Kunzru Jennifer Egan David Mitchell Jonathan Lethem Ali Smith A. L. Kennedy Hilary Mantel Marilynne Robinson and Colson Whitehead. Thirty-eight essays by leading and emerging international scholars cover topics such as: • Identity including race sexuality class and religion in the twenty-first century; • The impact of technology terrorism activism and the global economy on the modern world and modern literature;• The form and format of twenty-first century literary fiction including analysis of established genres such as the pastoral graphic novels and comedic writing and how these have been adapted in recent years. Accessible to experts students and general readers The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction provides a map of the critical issues central to the discipline as well as uncovering new perspectives and new directions for the development of the field. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the past present and future of contemporary literature.|The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction | Literature