Compagnoni, Michela (2024) Brave New Tempests: Brexit and Shakespeare’s Dystopian Afterlives in Ali Smith’s Gliff. Anglistica AION: An Intersciplinary Journal, 28 (1). pp. 61-72. ISSN 2035-8504
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Abstract
In the wake of Brexit, a surge of dystopian fiction by British authors has grappled with the political and cultural ruptures left in its trail. Ali Smith’s Gliff (2024) stands as a compelling recent addition to this post-Brexit corpus. Set in a near-future Britain governed by biometric surveillance and bureaucratic erasure, Gliff follows two non-binary siblings, Briar and Rose, who are categorised as “Unverifiables” after their mother refuses digital registration. One morning, a red line is painted around their house – a visible decree of exclusion – and their displacement begins. The novel probes a society stratified by data and language, where identity is state-sanctioned and deviation punished. By invoking Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), Gliff joins a tradition of science-fictional adaptations of Shakespeare’s The Tempest that reworks the latter’s interrogations of knowledge, power, surveillance, and freedom within the speculative imaginaries of the twenty-first century.
| Tipologia del documento: | Articolo in rivista |
|---|---|
| Parole chiave: | Ali Smith ; Gliff ; Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ ; Brexit ; dystopia ; surveillance |
| Soggetto: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D111 Medieval History P Language and Literature > PR English literature |
| Depositato il: | 22 Ago 2026 13:28 |
| Ultima modifica: | 22 Ago 2026 13:28 |
| URI: | https://www.rmoa.unina.it/id/eprint/9510 |
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