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(2013) Twenty-first century fiction, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
A voice without a name
gothic homelessness in Ali Smith's Hotel world and Trezza Azzopardi's Remember me
Emily Horton
pp. 132-146
It is not just that some humans are treated as humans, and others are dehumanized; it is rather that dehumanization becomes the condition for the production of the human to the extent that a “Western” civilization defines itself over and against a population understood as, by definition, illegitimate, if not dubiously human. … [In this sense,] the spectrally human, the deconstituted, are maintained and detained, made to live and die within that extra-human and extra-juridical sphere of life. (2004, p. 91)
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Horton, E. (2013)., A voice without a name: gothic homelessness in Ali Smith's Hotel world and Trezza Azzopardi's Remember me, in S. Adiseshiah & R. Hildyard (eds.), Twenty-first century fiction, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 132-146.
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