Dr Bingham contributes chapter to the upcoming book 'The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel'
Dr Richard Bingham has a chapter in the upcoming Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel with chapter titled "‘My generation, her generation, blah blah blah’: Forms of Generationality in the Millennial Novel".
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The summary of the companion is as follows:
As the first major book to survey and map out the millennial novel across multiple countries, this Companion offers a global framework for thinking about the dominant forms and preoccupations of writing by millennial authors. Scholars of contemporary literature will benefit from its breadth of investigation – across issues of race, gender, sexuality, class, family, social structures, nationhood and literary form – as well as its detailed studies of particular novels and authors, including Brit Bennett, Ocean Vuong, Ottessa Moshfegh, Sally Rooney, Raven Leilani and Ling Ma. Overall, The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel shows that millennial fiction is neither homogeneous nor impervious to previous socio-literary movements. In turn, it complicates our understanding of the genre, attempts to define the contours of contemporary literary production and reflects on twenty-first-century sociality.
Dr Bingham's chapter, "‘My generation, her generation, blah blah blah’: Forms of Generationality in the Millennial Novel", examines how recent novels by Olivia Sudjic and Kiley Reid test the limits of generationalism as a theory of social change.