Hywel Dix is a part-time tutor in English at the Cardiff University Centre for Lifelong Learning and works full time at a major arts centre in Cardiff, Wales Millennium Centre.

'Starting from the mutually-informing perspectives of postmodernism and political devolution, this fascinating study gives shape to a new configuration of British postmodernist novelists, from Byatt and Barnes to Levy, O'Hagan, Barry and Seiffert amongst others. Dix persuasively demonstrates the self-confessed 'conjuring trick' of locating in the novels an often satirical, paradoxically 'planetary' concern with Britishness. Exciting and innovative, yet strongly grounded in a left-orientated historical analysis of postcolonial British culture that builds on the work of Raymond Williams and Tom Nairn.' -Jeff Wallace, Professor of Literature and Cultural History, University of Glamorgan, UK

• Introduction; 1.The Novel - and Britain - in Transition; 2. Voyages In; 3.The Spatial Turn; 4.Feminist Satires of Monarchic Culture; 5. A Borderless World; 6. Race, Reading and Identification; Conclusion; Bibliography.

Hywel Dix is a part-time tutor in English at the Cardiff University Centre for Lifelong Learning and works full time at a major arts centre in Cardiff, Wales Millennium Centre.

'Starting from the mutually-informing perspectives of postmodernism and political devolution, this fascinating study gives shape to a new configuration of British postmodernist novelists, from Byatt and Barnes to Levy, O'Hagan, Barry and Seiffert amongst others. Dix persuasively demonstrates the self-confessed 'conjuring trick' of locating in the novels an often satirical, paradoxically 'planetary' concern with Britishness. Exciting and innovative, yet strongly grounded in a left-orientated historical analysis of postcolonial British culture that builds on the work of Raymond Williams and Tom Nairn.' -Jeff Wallace, Professor of Literature and Cultural History, University of Glamorgan, UK

• Introduction; 1.The Novel - and Britain - in Transition; 2. Voyages In; 3.The Spatial Turn; 4.Feminist Satires of Monarchic Culture; 5. A Borderless World; 6. Race, Reading and Identification; Conclusion; Bibliography.

Hywel Dix is a part-time tutor in English at the Cardiff University Centre for Lifelong Learning and works full time at a major arts centre in Cardiff, Wales Millennium Centre.

'Starting from the mutually-informing perspectives of postmodernism and political devolution, this fascinating study gives shape to a new configuration of British postmodernist novelists, from Byatt and Barnes to Levy, O'Hagan, Barry and Seiffert amongst others. Dix persuasively demonstrates the self-confessed 'conjuring trick' of locating in the novels an often satirical, paradoxically 'planetary' concern with Britishness. Exciting and innovative, yet strongly grounded in a left-orientated historical analysis of postcolonial British culture that builds on the work of Raymond Williams and Tom Nairn.' -Jeff Wallace, Professor of Literature and Cultural History, University of Glamorgan, UK

• Introduction; 1.The Novel - and Britain - in Transition; 2. Voyages In; 3.The Spatial Turn; 4.Feminist Satires of Monarchic Culture; 5. A Borderless World; 6. Race, Reading and Identification; Conclusion; Bibliography.