Rewriting the North: Contemporary British Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Devolution (Twenty-First Century Perspectives on British Literature and Society)

Synopsis

This book shows how twenty-first-century writing about Northern England imagines alternative democratic futures for the region and the English nation, signalling the growing awareness of England as a distinct and variegated political formation. In 2016, the Brexit vote intensified ongoing constitutional tensions throughout the UK, which have been developing since the devolution of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland in 1997. At the same time, British devolution developed a distinctively cultural registration as a surrogate for parliamentary representation and an attempt to disrupt the status of London as Britain’s cultural epicentre. Rewriting the North shifts this debate in a new direction, examining Northern literary preoccupation with devolution’s constitutional implications. Through close readings of six contemporary authors – Sunjeev Sahota, Sarah Hall, Anthony Cartwright, Adam Thorpe, Fiona Mozley, and Sarah Moss – this book argues that literary engagement with the North emphasises regional devolution's limited constitutional charge, calling instead for an urgent abandonment of the British centralised state form.

Copyright:

2023

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781000874907

Related ISBNs:

9781032485027, 9781032436609, 9781003388722

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

05/15/23

Copyrighted By:

Chloe Ashbridge

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts, Politics and Government

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