Brexlit

"Britain's vote to leave the European Union in the summer of 2016 came as a shock to many observers. But writers had long been exploring the issues and fractures in British society -- from immigration, to devolution, to post-truth narratives -- that came to the fore in the Brexit campaign and its aftermath. Reading these tensions back into 21st-century British writing, BrexLit is the first in-depth study of how writers engaged with these issues before and after the referendum result. Examining a wide-range of authors, including Ali Smith, Julian Barnes, China Mieville, Sanjeev Sahota, Nicola…