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).
View More Alluvium Editorial 7.1: RelaunchTag: contemporary fiction
Digital Media and the Global Contemporary
Broadly speaking, the early twenty-first century is both increasingly global, and increasingly shaped by digital technology.
View More Digital Media and the Global ContemporaryMapping the Contemporary
An Interview with Daniel O’Gorman and Robert Eaglestone on publishing The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction.
View More Mapping the ContemporaryIdentifying with Our Contemporaries
If the hype is to be believed, “millennials” have finally found their literary standard-bearer in Irish author Sally Rooney [ …]
View More Identifying with Our ContemporariesContemporary Canonicity (or, what not to read)
Scholarship on the contemporary has a unique relationship to questions of canonicity and value. […]
View More Contemporary Canonicity (or, what not to read)Editorial – Global Conflict
Contemporary fiction about global conflict is often concerned with an imaginative collapsing of space. Putting emotional affect to instrumental use, it works to raise awareness about events that go untold by the world’s media, either challenging conventional understandings of…
View More Editorial – Global ConflictDrones and Dissociation
In January 2013 the novelist Teju Cole released a series of tweets introduced as “Seven Short Stories about Drones.” Each rewrites the opening of a classic novel, cutting off the narrative with a drone strike. For example, the third in the series rains “fire from heaven” …
View More Drones and DissociationLitter, Landscape and The Road
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006) presents a dystopian vision of a near-future world in which most organic vegetation has died and human life is becoming increasingly rare. It is not unusual for dystopian fiction to …
View More Litter, Landscape and The RoadThe Allure of the 1980s
When we remember, represent or consume the recent past, we often do so through the alluring prism of nostalgia. In Ali Smith’s short story ‘astute, fiery, luxurious’…
View More The Allure of the 1980sDiverse Suburbias
Rowena Clarke Since the nineteen fifties, when suburban living began to establish itself as the new norm, representations of suburbia in American culture have…
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