Brexlit - British Literature and the European Project

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 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.>

Product details

• Authors: Kristian Shaw
• Assisted by: Katy Shaw (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2023
• EAN: 9781350225817
• ISBN: 978-1-350-22581-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 232 mm x 18 mm
• Series: 21st Century Genre Fiction
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: postcolonial literature