Bloomsbury: The 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction [2017] paperback USHIS assesses its utility

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Bloomsbury: The 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction [2017] paperback USHIS assesses its utilityHow did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1980s shape contemporary British fiction? Setting the fiction squarely within the context of Conservative politics and questions about culture and national identity, this volume reveals how the decade associated with Thatcherism frames the work of Kazuo Ishiguro, Martin Amis, and Graham Swift, of Scottish novelists and new diasporic writers. How and why 1980s fiction is a response to