New Postcolonial British Genres: Shifting the Boundaries

by Sarah Ilott

Overview

This study analyses four new genres of literature and film that have evolved to accommodate and negotiate the changing face of postcolonial Britain since 1990: British Muslim Bildungsromane, gothic tales of postcolonial England, the subcultural urban novel and multicultural British comedy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137505217
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/02/2015
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Sarah Ilott is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at Teesside University, UK. Her main research and teaching interests are in postcolonial literature and twenty-first century British literature. She has published journal articles on postcolonial literature and multicultural screen comedy, and has taught at Lancaster University – where she gained her PhD in 2013 – as well as at the University of Birmingham.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Remapping Borders: Postcolonial Britain and Literary/Cinematic Genres
1. British Muslim Bildungsromane
2. Gothic Tales of Postcolonial England
3. The Subcultural Urban Novel
4. Multicultural British Comedy/The Comedy of Multicultural Britain
Conclusion: Genre Revisited
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

The book offers itself as a rich source of theories and contexts for the investigation of a multitude of conventions and innovations, tropes and characters, focal points and redefinitions, providing a coherent, detailed, and comprehensive study, complete with notes and references, a bibliography and index. … highly useful for researchers and students of both genre fiction and contemporary postcolonial fiction, and merits a high recommendation as an addition to library collections of British Studies.” (Éva Pataki, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 22 (2), 2017)

“Ilott (Teesside Univ., UK) expands the notion of the postcolonial by situating the postcolonial immigrant within the metropolis and thus challenges traditional notions of British identity. … Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.”(W. T. Martin, Choice, Vol. 53 (10), June, 2016)

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