Lyric maps and the legacies of 1971 in Kamila Shamsie’s<i>Kartography</i>

Herbert, Caroline

doi:10.1080/17449855.2011.557188

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“…In effect, her attitude to these new technologies and their possibilities for storytelling constructs, as Caroline Herbert argues, 'a dialogue between narrative and non-narrative modes that opens a space for difference and non-identification'. 51 While Shamsie's novel was authored, published, and read in the conventional way, her attempt to create what Herbert refers to as 'lyric maps' suggests connections between new narrative forms, new technologies, and new approaches to nation.…”

Section: New Technologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Writing Now

Chambers¹,

Watkins²

2015

The History of British Women’s Writing, 1970-Present

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This chapter considers the preoccupations and forms that characterize British women's writing in the new millennium. We argue that these are, firstly, multiculturalism with its questioning of race, religion, and culture, and its relationship, if any, to terrorism. Secondly, this chapter will address the treatment in fiction of the issue of an ageing population, and the resultant concerns with women's changing roles in relation to employment, fertility, and childcare. Thirdly, an anxiety about climate change and environmental catastrophe manifests itself in a renewed interest in dystopian, post-apocalyptic writing. Finally, we consider the impact of technological change. The fact that publishing faces its greatest upheaval since Johannes Gutenberg's fifteenth-century invention of the printing press is leading to contemporary women's diverse interest in new technologies, including the internet, ebook and digital publishing, and other interactive online formats.

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Section: New Technologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%