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

    Byrne, Eleanor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1976-0897 (2024) The Fifth Season: queer hosts and the Covid-19 pandemic in Ali Smith’s Summer and Companion Piece. The Minnesota Review. ISSN 0026-5667 (In Press)

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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 an accepted manuscript of a forthcoming article which will appear in The Minnesota Review, published 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
    ISSN 0026-5667
    e-ISSN 2157-4189

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