The Brexit within
Mapping the rural and the urban in contemporary British fiction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2179405 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Birte Heidemann |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 676-688 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449855.2020.1820670 |
| OpenAlex | W3088293776 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 11 |
Just as the 2016 referendum results had spiralled into a full-blown crisis, it became increasingly clear that Britain's push to leave the European Union (EU) concealed another crisis: a "Brexit within". This term refers to the entries, exits, and enclosures that course through a dominant narrative of English national identity: countryside versus city life. Drawing on Raymond Williams's The Country and the City (1973), this article argues that the rural and the urban serve as a template to diagnose other forms of division in Britain – racial, social, cultural, and economic – that the Brexit vote brought to the fore. The reading is based on two works of fiction published in the immediate aftermath of the referendum: Ali Smith's Autumn (2016) and Amanda Craig's The Lie of the Land (2017). Both narratives continue a larger literary tradition of Condition-of-England novels, as they map out new sites of marginalization and precarity in the post-imperial nation
Aesthetics · Art · Brexit · Economic history · Economics · European union · Identity (music · Literature · Narrative · National identity · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Referendum · Sociology · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Gender Studies · History · Law
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |