REVISITING THE WORLD ORDER AND BRITISH SOCIETY IN ALI SMITH’S AUTUMN
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https://doi.org/10.47333/modernizm.2022.81Keywords:
Ali Smith , Autumn , Post-Brexit , Novel , Intertextuality , A Tale of Two CitiesAbstract
Ali Smith’s Autumn starts with the following lines, “It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times. Again. That’s the thing about things. They fall apart, always have, always will, it’s in their nature”. These sentences are reminiscent of the very first words that open Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities; “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. While Ali Smith’s novel is a post-Brexit novel, A Tale of Two Cities, on the other hand, depicts the events that lead to the French Revolution and its stunning consequences. Since Brexit, France and England have not seemed to emerge as allies, a situation which establishes a parallel connection between the two novels in the sense that Dickens’s novel similarly echoes the turmoil and strife between England and France after the French Revolution in terms of remounting the tension politically. Thus, this major intertextual link in political discourse enables Smith to pursue the long term lasting relations between the two countries. In this paper, spirit of/from the past in relation to political testimony through Elisabeth and Daniel’s relationships, the dichotomy between the young and the old, and England’s relation to the EU that are closely tied to the political issues of the era will be scrutinized in Smith’s Autumn.
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