Contemporary British Novel Since 1980

JAMES ACHESON is former Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is author of Samuel Beckett's Artistic Theory and Practice: Criticism, Drama, Early Fiction and John Fowles. SARAH C. E. ROSS is a Lecturer in English at Massey University, New Zealand, where she teaches Medieval and Renaissance Literature and Contemporary Fiction.

• Acknowledgements Introduction; J.Acheson & S.C.E.Ross PART I: REALISM AND OTHER -ISMS Realism, Dreams and the Unconscious in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro; F.M.Holmes Ian McEwan: Contemporary Realism and the Novel of Ideas; J.Seaboyer The Unnatural Scene: the Fiction of Irvine Welsh; A.Riach Angela Carter's Magic Realism; D.Punter Facticity, or Something Like That: The Novels of James Kelman; L.Nicoll One Nation, Oneself: Politics, Place and Identity in Martin Amis' Fiction; D.Lea PART II: POSTCOLONIALISM AND OTHER -ISMS Abdulrazak Gurnah and Hanif Kureishi: Failed Revolutions; B.King Salman Rushdie's Fathers; H.Lee Postcolonialism and 'The Figure of the Jew': Caryl Phillips and Zadie Smith; B.Moore-Gilbert Mingling and Metamorphing: Articulations of Feminism and Postcoloniality in Marina Warner's Fiction; C.Zabus PART III: FEMINISM AND OTHER -ISMS Regeneration, Redemption, Resurrection: Pat Barker and the Problem of Evil; S.C.E.Ross 'Partial to Intensity': The Novels of A. L. Kennedy; G.Norquay Gender and Creativity in the Fictions of Janice Galloway; D.McMillan Appetite, Desire and Belonging in the Novels of Rose Tremain; S.Sceats Desire for Syzygy in the Novels of A.S. Byatt; K.Tarbox Jeanette Winterson and the Lesbian Postmodern: Story-telling, Performativity and the Gay Aesthetic; P.Palmer PART IV: POSTMODERNISM AND OTHER -ISMS (Re)Constituted Pasts: Postmodern Historicism in the Novels of Graham Swift and Julian Barnes; D.Bedggood Colonising the Past: the Novels of Peter Ackroyd; D.L.Higdon Player of Games: Iain (M.) Banks, Jean François Lyotard and Sublime Terror; C.Craig Notes on Contributors