A Posthuman Approach to BrexLit and Bordering Practices through an Analysis of John Lanchester’s <i>The Wall</i>

Kristen Sandrock (2020) connects John Lanchester’s 2019 Brexit novel <i>The Wall</i> with what she refers to as ‘British border epistemologies’; that is, a radical process of re-bordering due to global warming and its impact on human mobility. The literary phenomenon that is now referred...

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Published in:	Humanities
Main Author:	María Alonso Alonso
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2024-02-01
Subjects:	BrexLit posthumanism bordering practices refugee narratives climate fictions global mobility
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/13/1/34

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