Alterity and Artfulness in the Fiction of Ali Smith

阿里·史密斯小说中的另类与艺术性

• 批准号: 2605383
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2605383
• 关键词: Alterity; Artfulness; Fiction; Ali; Smith

There is an absence of substantial research on Ali Smith despite her prevalence in discussions of contemporary literature, including the kind of focused, critical analysis by which my proposed approach will examine key facets of her writing. I would like to analyse Smith's fiction through a lens pertaining to alterity and formal interstice, characteristic of her fiction and significant to the development of contemporary literature more generally. Throughout Smith's career, herwriting demonstrates textual playfulness and metafictional forms synonymous with postmodernism. However, her artful texts have a persistent attention to human relationships to each other and with works of art beyond antifoundational subversion. Smith's novels and stories are full of ghosts, strangers, and encounters with the Other, and her practice enacts an aesthetics of alterity on both thematic and formal levels. In Smith's fiction, an emphasis on alterity and artfulness has an inherently ethical and political value through textual encounters in-between reality and possibility,prompting a reader towards a critical recognition of lives other than our own and the vulnerabilities we share in an increasingly globalised and precarious world. By close analysis of Smith's rich body of fiction, I contend that her work is exemplary of contemporary literature's potential to activate a politics of compassion and ethics of care in response to socio-political and environmental crises.

尽管阿里·史密斯在当代文学的讨论中很流行，但缺乏对她的大量研究，包括我提出的方法将研究她写作的关键方面的那种集中的批判性分析。我想通过一个透镜来分析史密斯的小说，这是她的小说的特点，对当代文学的发展具有更广泛的意义。在史密斯的整个创作生涯中，她的作品展示了文本的趣味性和后现代主义的元小说形式。然而，她巧妙的文本对人类彼此之间的关系以及与艺术作品的关系有着持久的关注，超越了反基础的颠覆。史密斯的小说和故事充满了鬼魂、陌生人和与他者的相遇，她的实践在主题和形式层面上都制定了一种他性美学。在史密斯的小说中，强调另类和艺术性具有内在的道德和政治价值，通过现实和可能性之间的文本遭遇，促使读者对我们自己以外的生活以及我们在日益全球化和不稳定的世界中所共有的脆弱性进行批判性认识。通过对史密斯丰富的小说作品的仔细分析，我认为她的作品是当代文学在应对社会政治和环境危机时激活同情政治和关怀伦理的典范。