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BoletĂn NUESTRA AMĂRICA XXI - DesafĂos y alternativas, num.36, Octubre 2019
Una excelente iniciativa del Grupo de Trabajo Crisis y economĂa mundial, coordinado por MarĂa Josefina Morales y Gabriela Roffinelli
âDonât tell me this isnât relevant all over again in its brand new same old wayâ: imagination, agitation, and raging against the machine in Ali Smithâs Spring
This paper explores the third novel in Ali Smithâs seasonal quartet, Spring. Using Achille Mbembeâs Necropolitics as a conceptual frame, I analyze Smithâs rendering of a Britain grappling with Brexit in times of transnational populism. As with Autumn and Winter, Smithâs prose is saturated with intertextual borrowings from pop and âhighâ culture, also interrogating the links between ânanoracismâ and the âimmunity and communityâ knot (Dillet). This paper reads Spring alongside Smithâs contribution to and advocacy of the Refugee Tales project regarding the diverse discourses surrounding migration, xenophobia, and indefinite detention. Smithâs writing traces the darkness of our populist present with its rhetorical and material violence, as well as the possibilities for creative response and resistance. I argue that her seasonal quartet to date and her work with Refugee Tales aesthetically and ethically defend the principle that human dignity, both individual and collective, rests on the ability to tell stories