Abstract
This chapter reads Anne Enright’s short story “The Hotel” (2017) as a sophisticated response to a range of contemporary concerns around migration and refugees. The story approaches refugees’ experience of involuntary border crossing via the voluntary experience of international travel: Enright’s protagonist finds herself in a different country late at night after her flight is rerouted, and her search for the airport hotel seemingly leads her into a queue of people seeking asylum. Utilising core strengths of the modern short form, Enright’s story employs a fragmentary, open-ended and ambiguous approach in which the line between reality and sleep-deprived imagination becomes increasingly blurred.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Borders and Border Crossings in the Contemporary British Short Story |
Editors | Barbara Korte, Laura Lojo-Rodríguez |
Place of Publication | Basingstoke |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Chapter | 4 |
Pages | 77-94 |
Number of pages | 18 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783030303594 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783030303587 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Keywords
- Anne enright
- Liminality
- Migration
- Refugees
- Travel