ABSTRACT

The United Kingdom European Union membership or, in common parlance, Brexit referendum, held in the United Kingdom on 23^rd June 2016, was an unprecedented event in European politics. This article analyses a literary corpus of long fiction, known as BrexLit, which have all drawn inspiration from this poll and its subsequent consequences for British society. Novels such as Ali Smith’s Autumn (2017), Anthony Cartwright’s The Cut (2017), Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2017), Jonathan Coe’s Middle England (2018), John Lanchester’s The Wall (2019) or Ian McEwan’s The Cockroach (2019), and others, will be examined through the lens of Posthuman Studies to establish the numerous intersections that can be identified within these texts’ realist and speculative worldviews. BrexLit questions traditional norms, such as the Humanist conception of the white man being the center of the universe, as well as it provides representation for migratory movements. In fact, migratory and refuge issues will form the centerpiece of this study as the majority of these novels challenge the abundant political discourses against the “Other” that have flourished before, during and after the Brexit campaign.

摘要

^2016年6月23日，英国举行脱欧公投，这是欧洲政坛前所未有的事件。本文分析了名为 BrexLit 的长篇小说文学语料库，这些小说都从这次民意调查及其对英国社会的后续影响中汲取了灵感。阿里·史密斯的《秋天》 (2017)、安东尼·卡特赖特的《The Cut》 (2017)、莫辛·哈米德的《西出》 (2017)、乔纳森·科的《英格兰中部》(2018)、约翰·兰彻斯特的《墙》 (2019) 或伊恩·麦克尤恩的《蟑螂》等小说（2019）和其他人将通过后人类研究的镜头进行审查，以建立在这些文本的现实主义和思辨世界观中可以识别的众多交叉点。英国脱欧文学质疑传统规范，例如白人是宇宙中心的人文主义观念，并为移民运动提供了代表。事实上，移民和避难问题将成为这项研究的核心，因为这些小说中的大多数都挑战了英国脱欧运动之前、期间和之后盛行的针对“他者”的丰富政治话语。