Literature and the Contemporary : Fictions and Theories of the Present (Paperback)

Acknowledgements  Notes on Contributors  1. Hurry Up Please It's Time: Introducing the Contemporary  PART ONE: TIME TODAY  2. The Impossibility of the Present; Or, form the Contemporary to the Contemporal  3. The Politics of Time  Modernity, Postmodernity  4. Now, Here, This  5. Melancholic Modernity and Contemporary Greif: The Novels of Graham Swift  Memory  6. Memory Recovered/Recovered Memory  7. `We come after': Remembering the Holocaust  PART TWO: INTERSECTION  The Post-colonial contemporary  8. The Rhizome of Post-Colonial Discourse  9. The Dialect of Myth and History in the Post-Colonial Contemporary: Soyinka's `A Dance of the Forests'  Feminism  10. The Gender Differential, Again and Not Yet  11. Back to the Future: Revisiting Kristeva's `Women's Time'  Queering Now  12. Crossing the Present, Narrative, Alterity and Gender in Postmodern Fiction  13. A Queer Spirit of the Times  Index