![]() ![]() ![]() Keywords: domesticity, history, identity, temporality, the stranger(Kristeva, 1994, p. Smith's novels thus point toward alternative futures in lives that include alterity and proceed otherwise. What occurs within the confined spaces of a hotel or a vacation home in these novels extends outwards to a cosmopolitan world inhabited by strangers, contextualized by a history in which the past is always present. Using Julia Kristeva's philosophical reflection on the figure of ‘the stranger’ as the other within and without who contests notions of identity as singular, I discuss Smith's two novels as portrayals of persons and events upon which an uncanny contingency intrudes, thus initiating a series of consequences in which identities are destroyed and remade. ![]() Chapter Summary: In this chapter, I consider Ali Smith's Hotel World (2001) and The Accidental (2005) as novels that contest the singularity and homogeneity of identity and the homologous entities of family, nation and world. ![]()
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