ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to analyse Monica Ali's In the Kitchen (2009) and John Lanchester's Capital (2012). I draw on the notion of disposability (Evans and Giroux, Standing, and Bauman) to delve into the concepts of neoliberal subjectivity and exclusion for the analysis of the characters that in the novels embody subjectivities shaped by the logic of finance (economic migrants or asylum seekers). I argue that both works narrate different personifications of disposability resulting from neoliberal violence. In In the Kitchen and Capital, both Ali and Lanchester map a dark cartography of neoliberal British society. Both novels picture a society that is either indifferent to the violence provoked by neoliberalism, or unable to fight it back; the two works map a journey that slides from an apparently multicultural and opulent society down into a kind of dantesque social Inferno.

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当代英国小说中的可支配性叙事：莫妮卡·阿里在厨房里和约翰·兰彻斯特的资本

摘要本文的目的是分析莫妮卡·阿里的《厨房里》（2009 年）和约翰·兰彻斯特的《资本》（2012 年）。我利用可支配性的概念（Evans 和 Giroux、Standing 和 Bauman）深入研究新自由主义主体性和排斥的概念，以分析小说中体现金融逻辑（经济移民或庇护）主体性的人物。寻求者）。我认为这两部作品都讲述了新自由主义暴力导致的可支配性的不同拟人化。在厨房和首都中，阿里和兰彻斯特都绘制了新自由主义英国社会的黑暗地图。两部小说都描绘了一个对新自由主义挑起的暴力漠不关心或无法反击的社会；