ABSTRACT This article addresses a blind spot in Brexit literary criticism: Britain’s relationship to the Middle East, particularly its historic responsibility for the plight of Palestinians. Although fiction that directly engages both Brexit and the Israeli–Palestinian crisis has not yet appeared, oblique connections can be illuminated. Shared conceptual fields, albeit ones only partially brought into view in contemporary British fiction, emerge from intersecting historical experiences. The article considers a range of recent literary texts, with an emphasis on A Stranger City (2019) by British Jewish author Linda Grant and Fractured Destinies: A Novel (2018) by British Palestinian author Raba’i al-Madhoun. When viewed in a certain light, Brexit motifs of enclosure, displacement, and propinquity limn the Palestinian crisis as well as the spectre of anti-Semitism, revealing Britain’s role in the shaping of the modern Middle East as part of contemporary British literature’s political unconscious.

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英国脱欧文学的缺席者：对英国脱欧、反犹太主义和巴勒斯坦危机进行三角分析

摘要本文解决了英国脱欧文学批评的一个盲点：英国与中东的关系，特别是其对巴勒斯坦人困境的历史责任。尽管直接涉及英国脱欧和以巴危机的小说尚未出现，但可以阐明间接联系。共享的概念领域，尽管在当代英国小说中只部分地出现在视野中，却是从交叉的历史经验中出现的。这篇文章考虑了一系列最近的文学作品，重点是英国犹太作家琳达格兰特的《陌生的城市》（2019 年）和英国巴勒斯坦作家拉巴伊·马德霍恩的小说（2018 年）。从某种角度来看，英国脱欧的封闭、位移、