出版社：Université Catholique de Louvain, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
摘要：This article explores how David Hayden’s intermedial, self-reflexive and intertextual short story collection Darker With the Lights On (2017) disrupts reader expectations and established literary and cultural paradigms. I argue in particular how writing and reading surface as playful and transformative acts in these postmodern stories which cast a wide intertextual web by employing references to high and popular culture as well as to canonised and marginalised literary voices. Following Julia Kristeva’s understanding of intertextuality as a politically transformative practice, I analyze how Darker With the Lights On disrupts genre hierarchies and storytelling conventions to disclose an ethics of inclusion. I argue that the collection engages in the deconstruction of both traditional corpora of reference, such as the national canon, and systems of reference, such as the theories of the short story.
