ABSTRACT This article examines the representations of “Eastern European” migration in contemporary BrexLit, focusing on Adam Thorpe’s Missing Fay (2017), Amanda Craig’s The Lie of the Land (2017), Carla Grauls’s Occupied (2012), Andrew Muir’s The Session (2015), and Agnieszka Dale’s short stories. Drawing on Paul Gilroy’s work on postcolonial melancholia, and extending Kristian Shaw’s “BrexLit” definition by focusing on stereotyping, it shows how the figure of the Eastern European migrant exposes unresolved anxieties around a presumed British cultural superiority, race, and empire. The arrival of Eastern Europeans and the increasing Brexodus of their “cheap labour” enables a reflection on the health of the nation – something is, indeed, rotten in post-Brexit Britain – as well as on unresolved legacies of empire that underpin the Brexit crisis. The article also analyses several promising responses from Polish British writers who interrogate the problematic staleness of these representations and take them into a much-needed new direction.

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“东欧人”和 BrexLit

摘要 本文考察了当代 BrexLit 中“东欧”移民的表现，重点关注 Adam Thorpe 的 Missing Fay (2017)、Amanda Craig 的 The Lie of the Land (2017)、Carla Grauls 的 Occupied (2012)、Andrew Muir 的 The Session (2015) )，以及 Agnieszka Dale 的短篇小说。借鉴 Paul Gilroy 对后殖民忧郁症的研究，并通过关注刻板印象扩展了 Kristian Shaw 的“BrexLit”定义，它展示了东欧移民的形象如何暴露出围绕假定的英国文化优势、种族和帝国的未解决的焦虑。东欧人的到来以及他们“廉价劳动力”的日益增多使人们能够反思国家的健康状况——在英国退欧后，某些东西确实已经腐烂了——以及支撑英国退欧危机的未解决的帝国遗产.