Alterity and Artfulness in the Fiction of Ali Smith

尽管阿里·史密斯在当代文学的讨论中很流行，但对她的实质性研究却很少，包括我所建议的那种集中的、批判性的分析，通过这种分析来研究她作品的关键方面。我想通过一个镜头来分析史密斯的小说，关于另类和形式的间隙，她的小说的特点，对当代文学的发展更普遍的意义。在史密斯的整个写作生涯中，她的作品展示了文本的游戏性和后现代主义的元虚构形式。然而，她的艺术文本一直关注人与人之间的关系，以及超越反基础颠覆的艺术作品。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体现了一种另类的美学。在史密斯的小说中，通过现实与可能性之间的文本遭遇，对另类和艺术性的强调具有内在的伦理和政治价值，促使读者批判性地认识到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分享的脆弱性。通过对史密斯丰富的小说体的仔细分析，我认为她的作品是当代文学在回应社会政治和环境危机时激活同情政治和关怀伦理的潜力的典范。

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.