A Posthuman Approach to BrexLit and Bordering Practices through an Analysis of John Lanchester’s The Wall

Humanities Pub Date : 2024-02-05 DOI:10.3390/h13010034
María Alonso Alonso
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Kristen Sandrock (2020) connects John Lanchester’s 2019 Brexit novel The Wall with what she refers to as ‘British border epistemologies’; that is, a radical process of re-bordering due to global warming and its impact on human mobility. The literary phenomenon that is now referred to as ‘BrexLit’ bears witness to the way in which borders and the fear to the other seem to impinge on contemporary British fiction. BrexLit is framed by an increasing global interest in exploring interdisciplinary bordering practices. Primarily, BrexLit manifests through realist and/or speculative long fiction, although there are numerous short stories and poetry that deal with this seismic political event. This article proposes to focus on different samples of speculative long fiction born from Brexit before highlighting Lanchester’s The Wall. Posthuman studies offer a convenient theoretical framework with which to approach this specific text where the British border, refugees and the fear of the other are the drivers of the plot. Thus, this contribution will explore alien configurations of refugees in contemporary British speculative fiction and the way in which these texts question Brexit rhetoric in an eye-opening and thought-provoking way, assisting readers to understand the context and consequences of such a profound political event.
通过分析约翰-兰彻斯特(John Lanchester)的《墙》,从后人的角度看待脱欧文学和边界实践
克里斯汀-桑德罗克(2020)将约翰-兰彻斯特(John Lanchester)于2019年出版的脱欧小说《墙》(The Wall)与她所说的 "英国边界认识论 "联系在一起,即由于全球变暖及其对人类流动性的影响而导致的重新划分边界的激进进程。现在被称为 "BrexLit "的文学现象见证了边界和对他者的恐惧似乎是如何影响当代英国小说的。BrexLit 的框架是全球对探索跨学科边界实践的日益浓厚的兴趣。英国脱欧文学主要通过现实主义和/或推理长篇小说表现出来,尽管也有许多短篇小说和诗歌涉及这一震撼性的政治事件。本文拟在重点介绍兰彻斯特的《墙》之前,先着重探讨因英国脱欧而诞生的不同推理长篇小说样本。后人类研究提供了一个方便的理论框架来探讨这一特定文本,在这一文本中,英国边境、难民和对他者的恐惧是情节的驱动力。因此,这篇论文将探讨当代英国推理小说中难民的异形配置,以及这些文本以令人大开眼界、发人深省的方式质疑英国脱欧言论的方式,帮助读者理解这一深刻政治事件的背景和后果。
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