Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00691-1 - Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Critical Introduction Peter Boxall Index More information Index 1968 revolution, 63 , 64 , 146 , 147 Arnold, Matthew, 158 2001 attacks in New York, 1 ‘Dover Beach’, 155 9/11 novel, the, 123–64 , 215 , 225 Atta, Mohamed, 149 9/11 wars, 167 Attridge, Derek, 109 Atwood, Margaret, 6 , 30 , 31 , 98 abattoir, the, 110 , 200 Negotiating with the Dead , 31 Abu Ghraib, 161 Oryx and Crake , 14 , 211 , 217–21 Achebe, Chinua, 169 , 171–3 , 174 , 176 , 178 , 179 , Th e Penelopiad , 31 180 Th e Year of the Flood , 217 Acker, Kathy, 25 Augustine, 84 Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 7 , 209 Auschwitz, 201 , 202 Half of a Yellow Sun , 174–88 Austen, Jane, 214 , 215 Adiga, Aravind, 6 Auster, Paul, 6 , 31 , 126 , 142 Th e White Tiger , 133 Book of Illusions , 31 Adorno, Th eodor, 17 , 22 , 23 , 38 , 140 avant-garde, the, 13 , 25 , 26 , 124 , 127–8 , 144 , 147 , Aesthetic Th eory , 17 , 144 152 , 158 , 214 , 216 Prisms , 230n13 Afghanistan war, 13 , 138 , 167 Balham underground station, 66 Agamben, Giorgio, 2 , 3 , 16 , 17 , 79 , Ballard, J. G., 6 , 30 , 215 95 , 96 , 111 , 114 , 116 , 117 , 163 , High Rise , 22 202–4 , 208 Millennium People , 31 bare life, 16 , 89 , 92 , 195 , 199 , 202–4 Banville, John, 6 , 157 , 158 Homo Sacer , 203 Ancient Light , 31 , 97 Al Qaeda, 141 , 168 Eclipse , 97 Alexie, Sherman, 6 , 168 Barker, Nicola Ali, Monica, 6 , 168 Darkmans , 80 Altieri, Charles, 16 Barnes, Julian, 4 , 6 , 22 , 30 , 80 Alzheimer’s disease, 158 Th e Sense of an Ending , 4 Amazon booksellers, 8 , 211 Barrie, J.M. Amis, Martin, 6 , 80 , 125 , 144 Peter Pan , 151 Th e Pregnant Widow , 31 , 37 Barth, John, 24 , 46 , 51 Yellow Dog , 126 Barthes, Roland, 2 , 51 , 52 , 71 amnesia, 82 Baudrillard, Jean, 51 , 128 androgyny, 87 Bauman, Zygmunt, 4–5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 15 , 27 , animal rights, 85 37 , 122 anthropocentrism, 86 Liquid Modernity , 4 apocalypticism, 12 , 14 , 15 , 22 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 35 , 212 , Beatles, the, 63 216 , 217 , 221 , 224 Beaumont, Matthew, 213 Aquinas, Th omas, 85 Beckett, Samuel, 23–5 , 28 , 33 , 124 , 127 , 147 , 177 , Aristotle, 200 , 208 217 , 219 , 225 Armstrong, Nancy, 20 Th e Calmative , 31 259 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00691-1 - Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Critical Introduction Peter Boxall Index More information 260 Index Beckett, Samuel (cont.) Carroll, Rachel, 106 Endgame , 23 , 24 , 222 Carter, Angela, 25 , 46 How It Is , 24 Th e Passion of New Eve , 63 Malone Dies , 24 , 118 Caruth, Cathy, 82 Molloy , 28 Casanova, Pascale, 8 , 179 Murphy , 23 Cassidy, John, 125 Th e Unnamable , 24 Cavell, Stanley, 116 Waiting for Godot , 23 Chabon, Michael Beecroft, Vanessa, 95 Th e Yiddish Policeman’s Union , 64 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 37 , 38 Chakrabarthy, Dipesh, 16 , 172 Begam, Richard, 230n20 Chateaubriand, 38 Beigbeder, Frédéric Chea, Pheng, and Suzanne Guerlac, 228n33 Windows on the World , 126 Chomsky, Noam Bellow, Saul, 215 Hegemony or Survival , 229n6 Bennet, Alice, 231n37 Christianity, 84–5 , 139 , 222–4 Berger, John, 61–2 , 63 , 67 , 74 , 77 , 150 Christie, Julie, 63 Bergson, Henri, 42 Ciudad Juárez, 243n42 Creative Evolution , 232n4 climate change, 216 Berman, Marshall, 50 cloning, 98–106 , 112 , 113 , 132 Bernhard, Th omas, 25 Coetzee, J. M., 6 , 11 , 30 , 31 , 86 , 108–22 , 125 , 163 , Besley, Catherine, 10 209 , 213 , 221 Bewes, Timothy, 62 , 109 , 115 , 153 ‘As a Woman Grows Older’, 237n33 Bhabha, Homi, 16 , 86 , 170–1 , 173–4 , 178 , 179 , 183 Diary of a Bad Year , 108–9 , 115 , 117 , 119 , 122 Bhopal, 124 Disgrace , 112 Biennale of Sydney, 93 Doubling the Point , 120 binding, 11 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 36 , 55 , 73 , 74 , 75 , ‘Eight Ways of Looking at Samuel Beckett’, 79 , 89 , 97–106 , 101–6 , 117 , 123–64 , 182 , 112 , 114–15 , 116 199 , 204 , 205 , 218 Elizabeth Costello , 30 , 85–6 , 108 , 109–15 , 117 , biotechnology, 88 , 89 , 93 , 97 , 101 235n1 Blair, Tony, 165 , 167 , 169 , 179 Slow Man , 108 , 115–20 , 121–2 Blanchot, Maurice, 215 Summertime , 108 , 115 Bohr, Niels, 42 , 49 Cohen, Joshua Bolaño, Roberto, 7 , 11 , 168 , 191 Witz , 217 2666 , 64 , 165–6 , 181 , 189–209 , 210–11 , 213 , cold war, the, 26 221 , 225 Connolly, Cyril, 68–70 , 72 , 75 Amulet , 80 Conrad, Joseph, 39 By Night in Chile , 205 , 208 Th e Shadow Line , 33–7 , 60 , 222 Bon, François, 6 , 11 Copenhagen interpretation, the, 49 Bouchard, Gianna, 96 Cormack, Alistair, 71 Bray Dunes, 65 Cuidad Juárez, 190 , 193 , 195 Brooke-Rose, Christine, 25 Cushing, James, 49 Buell, Lawrence, 217 cyborg, 90–1 Burke, Jason, 167 Burroughs, William, 215 Dabbagh, Selma, 168 Bush, George W., 31 , 131 , 138 Dancer, Th om, 158 Butler, Judith, 16 , 92 , 97 Dante Alighieri Bodies Th at Matter , 16 Th e Divine Comedy , 22 Gender Trouble , 16 , 87 Dava Sobel Giving and Account of Oneself , 16 Longitude , 229n3 Precarious Life , 16 , 163–4 de Groot, Jerome, 66 Deborah Lipstadt, 232n9 Camus, Albert, 85 Debord, Guy, 190 Carey, Peter, 7 Th e Society of the Spectacle , 63 Th e Chemisty of Tears , 98 Debussy, Claude, 76 Th e True History of the Kelly Gang , 81 decolonisation, 86–7 , 169 , 174 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00691-1 - Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Critical Introduction Peter Boxall Index More information Index 261 deconstruction, 16 , 87 What is the What , 174–88 Defoe, Daniel, 219 Einstein, Albert, 42 , 47 , 49 , 66 Robinson Crusoe , 19–21 , 23 , 29 , 34 , 217–18 , 220 Eitner, Lorenz, 234n48 Deleuze, Gilles, 23 electronic book, 210 DeLillo, Don, 5 , 6 , 10 , 25–30 , 35 , 36 , 39 , 97 , 115 , Eliot, George, 215 123 , 125 , 132 , 139 , 153 , 209 Eliot, T.S., 37 , 38–9 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 49 , 54 , 57 , 58 Americana , 25–7 , 28 ‘Little Gidding’, 37 , 59 Th e Body Artist , 27–9 , 35 , 39 end of history, the, 15 , 35 , 60 , 85 , 223 , Cosmopolis , 27–8 , 29 See also Fukuyama, Francis Falling Man , 126 , 128 , 129–31 , 139–40 , 141 , Enlightenment, the, 85 , 86 , 87 149 , 153 , 156 , 158 , 160 , 163 environment, the, 14 , 166 , 216–25 Great Jones Street , 6 Erasmus, Desiderius, 85 Mao II , 13 , 124 , 125 , 126–8 , 131 , 141 , 146 , 149 , 160 Eshelman, Raoul, 59 ‘Midnight in Dostoevsky’, 28 ethical turn, 141 Th e Names , 131 Europrocentrism, 86 Point Omega , 5 , 10 , 27–8 , 35 ‘ Th e Starveling’, 28 Fanon, Franz, 86 Underworld , 25 , 26–7 , 28 , 133 , 192 Th e Wretched of the Earth , 86 White Noise , 29 , 127 Farred, Grant, 196 democracy, 13–14 , 83 , 143 , 160 , 161 , 165–209 , fascism, 129 , 208 214 , 225 Faulkner, William, 1 , 5 , 33 , 46 , 81 democracy to come, 192 , 204 , 209 Requiem for a Nun , 81 democratic lag, 189 Th e Sound and the Fury , 1 , 2–4 , 5 , 10 , 14 , 220 Deng, Valentino Achak, 174–88 feminism, 87 Denham, Scott, and Mark McCulloh, 235n65 third wave feminism, 87 Derrida, Jacques, 16 , 122 , 141 , 163 , 187 , 191–2 , Fielding, Henry, 72 194 , 203 , 204 Fine, Arthur, 232n4 ‘ Th e Animal Th at Th erefore I Am’, 121 Finney, Brian, 71 Th e Beast and the Sovereign , 191 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 214 , 215 Th e Politics of Friendship , 191 Fitzroy Square, 154 Rogues , 191 forced migrancy, 175 , 183–8 Desai, Kiran, 7 , 59 , 168 Foster, Hal, 10 Th e Inheritance of Loss , 174 Foster Wallace, David, 11 Descartes, René, 85 , 110 , 112 Foucault, Michel, 17–18 , 51 d’Espagnat, Bernard, 49 Fowles, John, 65 , 66 , 67 Dickens, Charles Th e French Lieutenant’s Woman , 52 , 55 , 66 , 70 Great Expectations , 25 Franzen, Jonathan, 6 DNA, 89 Freedom , 126 , 189–90 Docherty, Th omas, 190 freedom, 189–92 , 194 , 195 , 202–3 Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 147 Fukuyama, Francis, 23 , 167 Douglass, Frederick, 177 , 185 Th e End of History and Th e Last Man , 230n13 Th e Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass , futurism, 144 177 Dunkirk, 75 Gadaffi , Muammar, 80 Dunkirk, retreat to, 64 , 65 Gasiorek, Andrzej, 230n22 dystopia, 47 , 212 , 216 , 217 , 225 , See also utopia Gates, Bill, 5 Genet, Jean, 37 Eaglestone, Robert, 232n9 genetic modifi cation, 211 ecocatastrophe, 217 Géricault, Th éodore, 61 , 62 economic crisis, 168 ‘Portrait of a Kleptomaniac’, 61 Edelman, Lee, 14 Ghosh, Amitav, 6 Egan, Jennifer, 6 , 11 , 191 Th e Glass Palace , 80 A Visit from the Goon Squad , 79 , 126 , 189 Gibson, William, 11 Eggers, Dave, 6 , 204 Pattern Recognition , 10 , 126 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius , 179 Spook Country , 81 , 211–13 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00691-1 - Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Critical Introduction Peter Boxall Index More information 262 Index global warming, 216 Huntington’s disease, 155 globalisation, 165–210 , 225 Hustvedt, Siri, 7 , 150 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Hutcheon, Linda, 59 Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship , 104 Huyssen, Andreas, 235n65 Google Earth, 216 hybridity, 101 , 105 , 138 , 139 , 142 , 153 , 160 , 169 , Gordon, Douglas, 10 172 , 173–88 24 Hour Psycho , 10 Gramsci, Antonio, 189 , 225 Imperial War Museum, 67 Grant, Linda, 125 Indian independence, 52–4 , 55 , 56 Granta , 80 instantaneity, 5 , 6 , 8 , 15 , 27 , 122 Green, Henry, 46 intertexuality, 72 Green, Jeremy, 59 Iraq war, 13 , 138 , 155 , 167 , 190 Greengrass, Paul Ishiguro, Kazuo, 7 , 112 , 127 United 93 , 150 Never Let Me Go , 98–108 , 112 , 113 , 114 , 132 , 183 Groes, Sebastian and Barry Lewis, 237n29 Th e Unconsoled , 105 Grossman, David, 125 Islam, 126 , 128–40 , 142 , 156 , 167 Guantanamo Bay, 161 Guardian, Th e , 124 , 125 James, Henry, 33 , 66 , 72 Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich, 10 Ghost