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Tables of Contents for Literature and the Contemporary
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
vii
Notes on Contributors
viii
Hurry up please it's time: introducing the contemporary
1
12
Roger Luckhurst
Peter Marks
PART ONE: TIME TODAY
13
96
Temporality
The impossibility of the present: or, from the contemporary to the contemporal
15
21
Steven Connor
The politics of time
36
14
Peter Osborne
Modernity, Postmodernity
Now, here, this
50
13
Thomas Docherty
Melancholic modernity and contemporary grief: the novels of Graham Swift
63
17
Wendy Wheeler
Memory
Memory recovered/recovered memory
80
14
Roger Luckhurst
`We come after': remembering the Holocaust
94
15
Nicola King
PART TWO: INTERSECTIONS
109
103
The Post-Colonial Contemporary
The rhizome of post-colonial discourse
111
15
Bill Ashcroft
The dialectic of myth and history in the post-colonial contemporary: Soyinka's A Dance of the Forests
126
13
Mpalive Msiska
Feminism
The gender differential, again and not yet
139
17
Caroline Rooney
Back to the future: revisiting Kristeva's `Women's Time'
156
23
Carol Watts
Queering Now
Crossing the present: narrative, alterity and gender in postmodern fiction
179
20
Andrew Gibson
The queer spirit of the age
199
13
Mandy Merck
Index
212