21st century literature

Issue 9.1 - Special Issue - "C21st Irish Women's Writing" Previous Issues

Alluvium Editorial 9.1: Twenty-First Century Irish Women’s Writing

In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, Irish literature has been marked by a seemingly unprecedented proliferation of writing by women. From Sally Rooney’s global domination on bestseller lists to Anna Burns’ Booker Prize win, Irish women’s writing is flourishing within and without the borders of the island. This special issue focusing on twenty-first century Irish women’s writing emerges out of a desire to survey and interrogate this literary fecundity.

Issue 7.3 - Special Issue "The Global Contemporary and the Ecological" Previous Issues

Motherhood as Ecological Metaphor

Marie Hendry July 1, 2019 No Comments 21st century literature ecocriticism ecology female writing feminism feminist science fiction gender metaphor mother studies motherhood mothers

Marie Hendry explores birth and humanities process for renewal.

Issue 7.3 - Special Issue "The Global Contemporary and the Ecological" Previous Issues

Reproducing the Patriarchal Anthropocene

Beth Capo July 1, 2019 No Comments 21st century literature dystopia feminism partriarchy patriarchal writing reproductive rights

Female reproductive rights are linked to environmental abuse, Beth Capo explores.

Issue 5.5 Previous Issues

Infrastructure and the Anthropocene in Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island

Andy Hageman October 30, 2016 No Comments 21st century literature Anthropocene C capital capitalism contemporary British fiction ideology imbrications infrastructural infrastructure Men in Space oil spill Remainder Satin Island systems theory Tom McCarthy

To read a Tom McCarthy novel is to find oneself weirdly and wildly awash in grids within grids, maps within maps, of infrastructural objects and systems. Protagonists and minor characters alike obsess over these objects and systems of infrastructure—over their grandeur, their minutiae, their flows and flaws, slows and jams, their symbolic ideological concretizations, their masterful and/or absurd designs, their volumes of strata.

Issue 4.3 Previous Issues

A Unified Scene? Global Fictions in the C21

Kristian Shaw June 26, 2015 No Comments 21st century literature contemporary culture David Mitchell dehumanisation digital revenge globalisation Hari Kunzru heterogeneity identity revenge Teju Cole Western domination Western homogenisation

The twenty-first century has been marked by an unprecedented intensification in globalisation, transnational mobility and technological change. According to Peter Boxall, there has been a ‘turn in the fiction of the new century’ to reflect this ‘contemporary global condition’ (Boxall 141). This turn is especially pertinent to any discussion of literature from Britain or the United States …

Issue 2.3 Previous Issues

DeLillo, Aesthetics, The Cold Iraq War

Martin Paul Eve May 13, 2013 2 Comments 21st century literature 9/11 bi-directionality Cold War Contemporary American Literature Cosmopolis Don DeLillo Douglas Gordon Falling Man installation Iraq War Point Omega postmodernist aesthetics rogue state The Body Artist Thomas Pynchon Toni Morrison Twenty-Four Hour Psycho Underworld warfare White Noise

As one of the most important American writers of the late-twentieth century – alongside Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon in particular – Don DeLillo is a notable target of…