Wenhui Zhai

“Notorious, a Tragedy, Not-Spoken-About”: Spatial Justice, the Buried Said, and the Fragile Circulation of Recognition in Hotel World

Critics of Ali Smith’s Hotel World largely approach its trauma narrative through psychoanalysis, polyphonic form, or Gothic spectrality, treating space as a passive backdrop. This article challenges this tendency, arguing that the novel reframes traumatic memory not as a private...