Recent British Literature: Concluding panel of the 2015 SEAC conference

Abstract

The texts here gathered continue the tradition of the panels which conclude the yearly conferences of the Société d’Études Anglaises Contemporaines. This year, the panel turns not only to recent fiction writing or prose coming from Britain—in this case Iain Sinclair—, but also poetry as well as writing coming from world literature. The three contributions testify once more to the vibrancy of recent literature emerging in the British isles and to the increasingly complex nature of what can no longer be defined as strictly ‘British’ writing. As the recent evolution of the Man Booker Prize also shows, which is now awarded to a piece of fiction originally written in English and published in Britain, the increasing globalization of very recent fiction in English opens up new horizons for a ‘British’ literature which today can no longer be understood along the established frontiers distinguishing ‘British’ from ’post-colonial’ writing.

Keywords

• R. F. Langley
• Iain Sinclair
• Taiye Selasi
• psychogeography
• London writing
• Afropolitan