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占主导地位，但缺乏对她的实质性研究，包括那种集中的、批判性的分析，我提出的方法将通过这种分析来审查她写作的关键方面。我想通过一个关于交替和形式间隙的视角来分析史密斯的小说，这是她小说的特点，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游戏性和后现代主义的代名词--元小说形式。然而，她的艺术文本对人与人之间的关系以及与艺术作品之间的关系有着持久的关注，而不仅仅是反基础的颠覆。史密斯的小说和故事充满了鬼魂、陌生人和他者的遭遇，她的实践在主题和形式层面上都体现了一种交替的美学。在史密斯的小说中，通过现实和可能性之间的文本接触，对交替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的生活之外的生活，以及我们在一个日益全球化和不稳定的世界中共享的脆弱性。通过对史密斯丰富的小说主体的仔细分析，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.