Weird homemaking: precarious geographies of home in British storytelling

当代英国人的讲故事方式正在远离西方关于安全和有限制的家庭的典范。从老牌作家(Maggie Gee，Ali Smith，Zadie Smith)到新兴作家(Natasha Brown，Jo Hamya，Melody Razak)，作家们越来越多地被不稳定的城市家园想象所吸引。文学小说通过城市空间中奇怪的生态破裂扰乱了离散的现代住宅(莫顿2016)；关于家务的置换重写过程的口头证词，将外部引入；关于议会庄园和格伦费尔大厦调查的生活写作揭示了当代英国住宅的早熟。这个跨学科的项目位于文学研究的伦理转向和地理的创造性转向的交叉点上(石桥2018；霍金斯2019)。创造性的地理学在视觉文化中探索了家的多个尺度(Sheringham等人。2020年)，但不是在当代文学中的“奇怪的家务”，这是我的项目介入的地方。

Contemporary British storytelling is shifting away from Western paradigms of safe and bounded homes. From the established (Maggie Gee, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith) to the emergent (Natasha Brown, Jo Hamya ,Melody Razak), writers are increasingly drawn to precarious urban home imaginaries. Literary novels disturb the discrete modern home through 'weird' ecological ruptures in urban space (Morton 2016); oral testimonies on displacement rewrite processes of homemaking, bringing the outside in; life writing on council estates and the Grenfell Tower Inquiry reveal the precarity of contemporary British homes. This interdisciplinary project situates itself at an intersection between the ethical turn in literary studies and the creative turn in geography (Stonebridge 2018; Hawkins 2019). Creative geographies have explored the multiple scales of home in visual culture (Sheringham et al. 2020) but not in contemporary literatures of "weird homemaking", which is where my project intervenes.