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Issue 7.1 - Alluvium Relaunch Previous Issues

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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Issue 7.1 - Alluvium Relaunch Previous Issues

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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Crowded bookshelves

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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 Third Reich in Contemporary Fiction

Richard Martin October 1, 2012 4 Comments Adolf Eichmann Auschwitz Babi Yar massacres Berlin Christopher Browning contemporary literature Daša Drndić European novel Hannah Arendt HHhH historical fiction Jonathan Littell Kurt Franz Laurent Binet Max Aue Memorial to the Murdered Jews in Europe Primo Levi SS officer The Kindly Ones Thurd Reich Trieste twenty-first-century literature

What voice is suitable to describe the horrors of the Third Reich? From whose perspective should the catastrophic events be narrated? What is the relationship, in such…

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Editors’ Introduction: Issue 1.1

Caroline Edwards June 1, 2012 2 Comments Alluvium contemporary literature Editor's Introduction literary criticism scholarship theoretical approaches theory twenty-first-century literature

Welcome to the launch issue of Alluvium, a new online journal of literary criticism that is dedicated to 21st-century writing as well as 21st-century approaches…

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