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The Author Returns

Arya Aryan explores the return of the Author in the writing of Salman Rushdie

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“The Beautiful Game” in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric

Donna Alexander April 30, 2019 No Comments adaptation Citizen: An American Lyric Claudia Rankine football lyric poetry poetry race

Citizen: An American Lyric chronicles racial micro-aggressions, demonstrating the depth at which racism is ingrained in day-to-day life.

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Digitisation and the Death of the Real

Keri Thomas April 30, 2019 No Comments books cultural materialism digital digital humanities digital texts Digitisation manucript manuscripts materialities materiality physicality posthumanism posthumanities reading simulation

Keri Thomas asks: what is the Real? It is the desert left beneath our replica map of the world […]

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Alluvium Editorial 7.1: Relaunch

Zoe Bulaitis March 4, 2019 No Comments Alluvium BACLS c21 Caroline Wintersgill Chloe Ashbridge conference contemporary contemporary culture contemporary fiction definitions editorial future global relaunch twenty-first-century literature What Happens Now writing Zoe Bulaitis

We are delighted to be presenting you with the first new issue of Alluvium, which is relaunching as a graduate-run journal affiliated to the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS).

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Digital Media and the Global Contemporary

Sarah Kirpekar-Sauer March 4, 2019 No Comments advocacy arts contemporary contemporary culture contemporary fiction definitions digital culture digital humanities global glocal glocalisation local localisation Refugee relaunch twenty-first-century literature

Broadly speaking, the early twenty-first century is both increasingly global, and increasingly shaped by digital technology.

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Mapping the Contemporary

Caroline Wintersgill March 4, 2019 No Comments BACLS book publication contemporary contemporary culture contemporary fiction definitions edited collection global interview launch relaunch twenty-first-century literature

An Interview with Daniel O’Gorman and Robert Eaglestone on publishing The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction.

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Identifying with Our Contemporaries

Richard Bingham March 4, 2019 No Comments contemporary contemporary culture contemporary fiction definitions Generation X generations global Ireland Irish fiction media Millennials relaunch Teenage twenty-first-century literature

If the hype is to be believed, “millennials” have finally found their literary standard-bearer in Irish author Sally Rooney [ …]

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Contemporary Canonicity (or, what not to read)

Rachel Sykes March 4, 2019 No Comments American literature Amy Hungerford canon contemporary contemporary culture contemporary fiction definitions relaunch syllabi twenty-first-century literature what not to read

Scholarship on the contemporary has a unique relationship to questions of canonicity and value. […]

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The Killer Inside Me

Rhona Gordon November 16, 2017 No Comments Andrew Hankinson crime fiction David Peace Nineteen Eighty Three Raoul Moat second person narrative You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat]

The question of how to write about a murderer whose final days were tracked by 24 hour rolling news channels and the internet is considered by Andrew Hankinson in his non-fiction novel…

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Book Apps and Digital Textuality

Zita Farkas May 31, 2017 1 Comment adaptation studies book apps digital literature Faber & Faber hypermedia iDickens iLovecraft interactive media literary applications literary apps literary canon medial ecology N Katherine Hayles paratextual Play Creatividad print remediation Sherlock: Interactive Adventure Touch Press

With its vast storage capacity for digitising the majority of canonised literary works, the Internet offers a wide variety of resources for contemporary readers. Unsurprisingly, the digital medium…