The Fifth Season: queer hosts and the Covid-19 pandemic in Ali Smith’s Summer and Companion Piece

Byrne, Eleanor ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1976-0897 (2025) The Fifth Season: queer hosts and the Covid-19 pandemic in Ali Smith’s Summer and Companion Piece. The Minnesota Review, 2025 (104). pp. 152-160. ISSN 0026-5667

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Abstract

This article explores representations of queer hospitality during the Covid-19 pandemic in two of Scottish writer Ali Smith’s novels, Summer (2020) and Companion Piece (2022). It examines the ways in which Smith’s Seasonal quartet sought to produce ‘state of the nation’ novels at a time of radically decentred and crisis ridden national identity in Britain through recentring marginal and minority voices and experiences as at the heart of concepts of belonging and hosting.

Item Type:	Article (Article)
Peer-reviewed:	Yes
Date Deposited:	06 Aug 2024 15:15
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Additional Information:	This is the author accepted manuscript of an article published in The Minnesota Review, by Duke University Press.
Divisions:	Faculties > Arts and Humanities
Subject terms:	20 Language, Communication and Culture, 47 Language, communication and culture
URI:	https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/635248
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1215/00265667-11859123
ISSN	0026-5667
e-ISSN	2157-4189

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