9.

NEW CONTRIBUTIONS
 NEW CONTRIBUTIONS: historical context

The 1980s:
- Election of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister
(1979-1990)
- Privatisation of state-owned companies
- Deregulation of financial market and labour market
- Beginning of the dismantling of the welfare state
- Falklands War against Argentina (1982)
- Miners’ strike (1984-85)
- Punk
- Outbreak of the AIDS pandemic
 NEW CONTRIBUTIONS: historical context

The 1990s:
- Gorbachev’s Perestroika: end of Cold War
- Reunification of East and West Germany
- End of Apartheid in South Africa (1991)
- Peace process in Northern Ireland: the Good
Friday Agreement (1998)
- Disintegration and war in former Yugoslavia
- First Gulf War
 NEW CONTRIBUTIONS: historical context
21st century:
- Tony Blair’s Third Way: a blend of liberal and social politics
- Terrorist attack on the World Trade Center (2001) which leads
to the war in Afghanistan
- Invasion of Iraq by the USA and the UK with the help of Spain
- Terrorist attacks in European capital cities
- Global depression (2008): mortgage and financial crisis, massive
unemployment, evictions, social turmoil
- Globalization of the economy: delocalization of European and
American factories
- Massive migrations due to conflicts and wars
 NEW CONTRIBUTIONS: cultural traits
• Widespread use of the Internet (World Wide Web
created in 1992)
• Threat of climatic crisis
• Rise of woman studies in accordance with the
increasing feminist awareness
• Rise of cultural studies in accordance with the
multicultural societies derived from migration
• High variety of topics and styles in writing: widening of
the scope of the novel with the use of the new
technologies
 AUTHORS:
• Angela Carter
• John Michael Coetzee
• Julian Barnes
• Ian McEwan
• Martin Amis
• Kazuo Ishiguro
• Roddy Doyle
• Irvine Welsh
• Zadie Smith
 ANGELA CARTER

• 1940 - 1992
 ANGELA CARTER: NOVELS
• Shadow Dance (1966)
• The Magic Toyshop (1967)
• Several Perceptions (1968)
• Heroes and Villains (1969)
• Love (1971)
• The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972)
• The Passion of New Eve (1977)
• Nights at the Circus (1984)
• Wise Children (1991)
 ANGELA CARTER: SHORT STORIES
• Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces (1974)
• The Bloody Chamber (1979)
• Black Venus (1985)
• American Ghosts and Old World
Wonders (1993)
• Burning Your Boats (1995)
 JOHN MAXWELL COETZEE

• 1940 -
 J. M. COETZEE: NOVELS
• Dusklands (1974)
• In the Heart of the Country (1977)
• Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)
• Life & Times of Michael K (1983)
• Foe (1986)
• Age of Iron (1990)
• The Master of Petersburg (1994)
• The Lives of Animals (1999)
• Disgrace (1999)
• Elizabeth Costello (2003)
• Slow Man (2005)
• Diary of a Bad Year (2007)
• The Childhood of Jesus (2013)
• The Schooldays of Jesus (2016)
Autobiography:
• Boyhood: Scenes from a Provincial Life (1997)
• Youth: Scenes from a Provincial Life II (2002)
• Summertime (2009)
 JULIAN BARNES

• 1946 -
 JULIAN BARNES: NOVELS
• Metroland (1980)
• Before She Met Me (1982)
• Flaubert's Parrot (1984)
• Staring at the Sun (1986)
• A History of the World in 10½ Chapters (1989)
• Talking It Over (1991)
• The Porcupine (1992)
• England, England (1998)
• Love, etc (2000)
• Arthur & George (2005)
• The Sense of an Ending (2011)
• The Noise of Time (2016)
• The Only Story (2018)
Under the name of Dan Kavanagh:
• Duffy (1980)
• Fiddle City (1981)
• Putting the Boot In (1985)
• Going to the Dogs (1987)
 IAN Mc EWAN

• 1948 -
 IAN Mc EWAN: NOVELS
• The Cement Garden (1978)
• The Comfort of Strangers (1981)
• The Child in Time (1987)
• The Innocent (1990)
• Black Dogs (1992)
• Enduring Love (1997)
• Amsterdam (1998)
• Atonement (2001)
• Saturday (2005)
• On Chesil Beach (2007)
• Solar (2010)
• Sweet Tooth (2012)
• The Children Act (2014)
• Nutshell (2016)
• Machines Like Me (2019)
Short stories
• First Love, Last Rites (1975)
• In Between the Sheets (1978)
• The Short Stories (1995))
 MARTIN AMIS

• 1949 -
 MARTIN AMIS: NOVELS
• The Rachel Papers (1973)
• Dead Babies (1975)
• Success (1978)
• Other People (1981)
• Money (1984)
• London Fields (1989)
• Time's Arrow: Or the Nature of the Offence (1991)
• The Information (1995)
• Night Train (1997)
• Yellow Dog (2003)
• House of Meetings (2006)
• The Pregnant Widow (2010)
• Lionel Asbo: State of England (2012)
• The Zone of Interest (2014)
KAZUO ISHIGURO
 KAZUO ISHIGURO: NOVELS
• A Pale View of Hills (1982)
• An Artist of the Floating World (1986)
• The Remains of the Day (1989)
• The Unconsoled (1995)
• When We Were Orphans (2000)
• Never Let Me Go (2005)
• The Buried Giant (2015)
 RODDY DOYLE

• 1958 -
 RODDY DOYLE: NOVELS
The Barrytown Trilogy:
• The Commitments (1987)
• The Snapper (1990)
• The Van (1991)
• Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1993)
• The Woman Who Walked into Doors (1996)
Last Roundup Books:
A Star Called Henry (1999)
• Oh, Play That Thing! (2004)
• The Dead Republic (2010)
• Yeats is Dead! (2001)
• Paula Spencer (2006)
• Click (2007)
• A Greyhound of a Girl (2011)
• The Guts (2013)
• Brilliant (2014)
• Smile (2017)
IRVINE WELSH
 IRVINE WELSH: NOVELS
• Trainspotting (1993)
• Marabou Stork Nightmares (1995)
• Filth (1998)
• Glue (2001)
• Porno (2002)
• The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs (2006)
• Crime (2008)
• Skagboys (2012)
• The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins (2014)
• A Decent Ride (2015)
• The Blade Artist (2016)
• Dead Men's Trousers (2018)
ZADIE SMITH
 ZADIE SMITH: NOVELS
• White Teeth (2000)
• The Autograph Man (2002)
• On Beauty (2005)
• NW (2012)
• Swing Time (2016)
• The Fraud (2019)
Short fiction:
Collections
• "Martha and Hanwell" (2005)
• "Grand Union" (2019)