Peripheral Visions: Images of Nationhood in Contemporary British FictionIan A. Bell Throughout contemporary British writing, the question of national identity recurs. By means of its testimony to lived experience, the novel seems to offer the possibility of exploring local communities and marginalized identities in various elaborate ways. However, by its very metropolitanism, and as a result of the material circumstances of publishing and the cosmopolitan nature of the audience, the British novel inevitably conglomerates around London, and its exploration of the remainder of Britain has tended to be patchy and touristy. |
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the politics of place and writing | 1 |
location and dislocation | 27 |
recent fictions in Wales | 44 |
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