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This work offers readings of five of the most interesting and original voices to have emerged in Britain since the millennium as they tackle the challenges of portraying the new century. Through close readings of the work of Ali Smith, Andrew O'Hagan, Tom McCarthy, Sarah Hall and Jon McGregor, Daniel Lea opens a window onto the formal and thematic concerns that characterise a literary landscape troubled by both familiar and unfamiliar predicaments. These include questions about the meaning of humanness in an age of digital intercourse; about the need for a return to authenticity in the wake of postmodernism; and about the dislocation of self from the other under neoliberal individualism.

English fiction. --- 2000-2099 --- Ali Smith. --- Andrew O'Hagan. --- Authenticity. --- Connectivity. --- Contemporary British Fiction. --- Jon McGregor. --- Materiality. --- Sarah Hall. --- Tom McCarthy. --- Twenty-First Century Literature.

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English fiction --- Literature and society --- Commonwealth fiction (English) --- Ethnic groups --- Cultural pluralism in literature --- Decolonization in literature --- Immigrants in literature --- Minorities in literature --- Minorities as a theme in literature --- Pluralism (Social sciences) in literature --- Ethnic identities --- Ethnic nations (Ethnic groups) --- Groups, Ethnic --- Kindred groups (Ethnic groups) --- Nationalities (Ethnic groups) --- Peoples (Ethnic groups) --- Ethnology --- Commonwealth of Nations fiction (English) --- Commonwealth literature (English) --- Minority authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- History --- Black authors&delete& --- Commonwealth of Nations authors --- English literature --- Minority authors --- Black authors --- POST-COLONIAL FICTION --- IRISH-BRITISH FICTION --- BRITISH LITERATURE --- BRITISH FICTION --- AUSTRALIAN FICTION --- DABYDEEN (DAVID) --- PHILLIPS (MIKE) --- MO (TIMOTHY) --- GURNAH (ABDULRAZAK) --- LITTERATURE JUIVE --- FRAME (JANET), 1924-2004 --- ISHIGURO (KAZUO), 1954 --- -KUREISHI (HANIF), 1954 --- -LAMMING (GEORGE), 1927 --- -RUSHDIE (SALMAN), 1947 --- -NAIPAUL (VIDIADHAR SURAJPRASAD), 1932 --- -SELVON (SAMUEL), 1923-1994 --- BRITAIN

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'Old Futures' traverses the history of imagined futures from the 1890s to the 2010s, interweaving speculative visions of gender, race, and sexuality from literature, film, and digital media. Centering works by women, queers, and people of colour that are marginalized within most accounts of the genre, the text offers a new perspective on speculative fiction studies while reframing established theories of queer temporality by arguing that futures imagined in the past offer new ways to queer the present.

Gender identity in literature. --- Future, The, in literature. --- Speculative fiction --- History and criticism. --- Afrofuturism. --- American fiction. --- British fiction. --- LGBT. --- affect. --- black feminism. --- black queer studies. --- blackness. --- digital. --- dystopia. --- empire. --- eugenics. --- fandom. --- fantasy. --- fascism. --- feminism. --- film. --- futurity. --- gay. --- gender. --- lesbian. --- media. --- modernity. --- music. --- narrative. --- negativity. --- new media. --- pleasure. --- politics. --- punk. --- race. --- remix. --- reproduction. --- science fiction. --- sexuality. --- slash fiction. --- slavery. --- speculation. --- technology. --- television. --- temporality. --- transnational. --- utopia. --- vampire. --- vidding. --- video. --- violence. --- visual culture. --- whiteness. --- world-building. --- world-making.