During the last decades of the twentieth century it has become increasingly difficult to consider British literature as 'national' or 'mainstream'. The book investigates contemporary fiction and poetry written in, or relating to, Britain and uncovers a distinct sense of a new and different national and social reality. Tracing literary effects of migration, globalization, and regionalization the book focuses on literary tradition as an inspiration or object of hate and frustration for the exploration and expression of post-Imperial experiences.

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University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Lars Ole Sauerberg

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LARS OLE SAUEBERG is Professor of Literature in English at the University of Southern Denmark and General Editor of Orbis Litterarum.

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Book Title: Intercultural Voices in Contemporary British Literature
Book Subtitle: The Implosion of Empire
Authors: Lars Ole Sauerberg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230598287
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2001
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-80170-3Published: 12 November 2001
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59828-7Published: 12 November 2001
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 228
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary History, British and Irish Literature, Social Sciences, general, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory

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