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There is an obvious paradox inherent in writing on the “contemporary” on the threshold of a new millennium, particularly when the original publication dates of the 23 novels upon which the study is primarily based span the last 35 years of the “old” millennium. That we recognize the existence of the paradox also reminds us that the contemporary is not a synchronic “pausing for breath” which implies that a novel written in 1967 somehow shares the same politics or poetics as one written in 1996. Particularly in relation to feminism, the three decades in question have been both revolutionary and disappointing: so much has been achieved, and yet so much remains uncharted, or even lost.
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Armitt, L. (2000). Introduction. In: Contemporary Women’s Fiction and the Fantastic. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230598997_1
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