Rethinking race and identity in contemporary British fiction
- Submitting institution
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Kingston University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 27-35-1448
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781315851143
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780415729192
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This is the first monograph to consider the treatment of race in contemporary British literature within a post-racial context. It embraces a broad literary and cultural field, including analyses of works by Hollinghurst and McEwan alongside those by Zadie Smith and Diana Evans, to establish how race is central to contemporary thinking on British identity. Offering readings of lesser-known writers, the book advances a new literary concept called ‘utopian realism’ and evaluates the literary text as a crucial cultural form for a radical, speculative, future-facing thinking directed towards the elimination of institutional and cultural racism.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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