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Postmodern Revisions of Englishness: Rushdie, Barnes , Ballard (2015)
Book Chapter
Bentley, N. (2015). Postmodern Revisions of Englishness: Rushdie, Barnes , Ballard. In L. Platt, & S. Upstone (Eds.), Postmodern Literature and Race (211--227). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107337022.018

This chapter examines the way in which postcolonial theory and discourses related to racial identity have impacted on a number of writers concerned with interrogating notions of Englishness in their fiction. It begins by identifying the way in which... Read More about Postmodern Revisions of Englishness: Rushdie, Barnes , Ballard.

'Unanchored fragments of print': Lessing’s Experiments with Drama and Poetry in the Late 1950s (2015)
Journal Article
Bentley, & Bentley, N. (2015). 'Unanchored fragments of print': Lessing’s Experiments with Drama and Poetry in the Late 1950s

The latter years of the 1950s represent a period in which Lessing is experimenting with literary forms that extend beyond narrative fiction. In 1958 she produced the play Each to His Own Wilderness and the following year published Fourteen Poems. Bot... Read More about 'Unanchored fragments of print': Lessing’s Experiments with Drama and Poetry in the Late 1950s.