Material Realist Texturality in Daisy Johnson’s Everything Under
Premised in material ecocriticism (Alaimo, Neimanis, Sullivan, Armiero) and environmental narratology (Caracciolo), this study focuses on Daisy Johnson’s novel Everything Under (2018) and various manifestations of fluidity in it—of water, body, identity, relationships, genre, language and narrative....
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Études britanniques contemporaines
2025
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| Résumé: | Premised in material ecocriticism (Alaimo, Neimanis, Sullivan, Armiero) and environmental narratology (Caracciolo), this study focuses on Daisy Johnson’s novel Everything Under (2018) and various manifestations of fluidity in it—of water, body, identity, relationships, genre, language and narrative. Materiality is approached as impurity, distinguishing material realism from both romanticism and classical realism. Important concepts are transcorporeality and Wasteocene, stressing the porosity of vulnerable bodies, enmeshed in their material and environmentally precarious environments, and the materiality of a nonsmooth, nonlinear, experiential narrative, theorised as texturality. These are approached through the recurrent motif of the river as a connecting fabric and agent of texturality, body’s becoming, gender transformations, kinetic and olfactory textures of memory. Cartesian logocentrism is challenged with the discussion of language as affective and textured. |
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