Narratives of Disposability in Contemporary British Fiction: Monica Ali's In the Kitchen and John Lanchester's Capital
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Título: | Narratives of Disposability in Contemporary British Fiction: Monica Ali's In the Kitchen and John Lanchester's Capital |
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Autor/es: | Caporale-Bizzini, Silvia |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Transhistorical Anglophone Literary Studies (THALIS) |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Filología Inglesa |
Palabras clave: | Contemporary British narrative | Disposability | Economic migrants | John Lanchester | Monica Ali |
Área/s de conocimiento: | Filología Inglesa |
Fecha de publicación: | 10-ago-2020 |
Editor: | Routledge |
Cita bibliográfica: | English Studies. 2020, 101(5): 584-597. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2020.1798139 |
Resumen: | The purpose of this article is to analyse Monica Ali's In the Kitchen (2009) and John Lanchester's Capital (2012). I draw on the notion of disposability (Evans and Giroux, Standing, and Bauman) to delve into the concepts of neoliberal subjectivity and exclusion for the analysis of the characters that in the novels embody subjectivities shaped by the logic of finance (economic migrants or asylum seekers). I argue that both works narrate different personifications of disposability resulting from neoliberal violence. In In the Kitchen and Capital, both Ali and Lanchester map a dark cartography of neoliberal British society. Both novels picture a society that is either indifferent to the violence provoked by neoliberalism, or unable to fight it back; the two works map a journey that slides from an apparently multicultural and opulent society down into a kind of dantesque social Inferno. |
Patrocinador/es: | This work was supported by PROYECTOS I+D+I – PROGRAMA ESTATAL DE INVESTIGACION, DESARROLLO E INNOVACION ORIENTADA A LOS RETOS DE LA SOCIEDAD: [Grant Number FFI2015-63895-C2-1-R]. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/109614 |
ISSN: | 0013-838X (Print) | 1744-4217 (Online) |
DOI: | 10.1080/0013838X.2020.1798139 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2020.1798139 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - THALIS - Artículos de Revistas INV - TELL - Artículos de Revistas |
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