Contemporary Crisis Fiction: Constructing a New Genre

Abstract

What then is contemporary crisis fiction? What are its generic components? In this chapter, I endeavour to answer these questions by taking a closer look at the forms and stylistic features of these writings, instanced in particular in their use of first person unreliable narrators and crisis scenarios, as well as the subversive appropriation of popular genres and intertexts, temporal digressions and fragmentation, memorial retrospection, and confessional disclosure.