# Contemporary Fiction

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Category: Literature
Slides: 26
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:18:33.027Z
Tags: literature, contemporary, fiction

## Summary

Contemporary, in this deck, is roughly 2000 to now. Twenty-six years of literary fiction. Three observable shifts. Key sections include: Contemporary Fiction.; Opening What contemporary means here.; Chapter I The autofictional turn.; Chapter II The autofiction triangulation.; Chapter III Han Kang.; Chapter IV Tokarczuk & Erpenbeck.; Chapter V Japanese contemporary.; Chapter VI The Latin American present.; Chapter VII The American post-DFW generation.; Chapter VIII Black American fiction now..

## Slide Outline

1. Contemporary Fiction.
2. Opening What contemporary means here.
3. Chapter I The autofictional turn.
4. Chapter II The autofiction triangulation.
5. Chapter III Han Kang.
6. Chapter IV Tokarczuk & Erpenbeck.
7. Chapter V Japanese contemporary.
8. Chapter VI The Latin American present.
9. Chapter VII The American post-DFW generation.
10. Chapter VIII Black American fiction now.
11. Chapter IX African fiction.
12. Chapter X South Asian.
13. Chapter XI British contemporary.
14. Chapter XII Diasporic.
15. Chapter XIII Climate fiction.
16. Chapter XIV Genre and literary, fused.
17. Chapter XV Formal preferences of the period.
18. Chapter XVI The prize system.
19. Chapter XVII Adaptation.
20. Chapter XVIII Thirty since 2000.
21. Chapter XIX Where to keep up.
22. Chapter XX Watch & read.
23. Chapter XXI The next ten years.
24. Chapter XXII A starter set.
25. Chapter XXIII Caveat.
26. The end of the deck.

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