The Seeds of Change: 1 (Leah's Garden)

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The majority of Felix’s narrative concerns his relationship with Annie Bedford, an aging, white, upper-class drug-addict. The encroaching cosmopolitanization of her local community, coupled with her drug abuse, leads Annie to jokingly exclaim that her own apartment ‘was France […] I felt I needed a passport to cross the room’ ( Smith 2012: 127). As Mica Nava identifies, contemporary London is increasingly characterised by these ‘hybrid, post-multicultural, lived transformations which are the outcome of diasporic cultural mixing and indeterminacy’ ( 2007: 13). Annie is the microcosmic embodiment of Middle England xenophobia resisting such ethnic infiltration. Her palpable belief in the reified and concrete nature of identity, cultural or otherwise, contrasts sharply with the novel’s cosmopolitan fluidity, indicating the ethno-phobic perspective of individuals who continue to perceive British society as a monoculture. In perceiving cultural diversity as a cancer upon her failing and increasingly restricted empire, Annie recognises that her own meagre dwelling is under threat from foreign bodies, as ethnic difference not only surrounds her but begins to intrude upon her private life. The fear of ethnic infiltration unsettles her already fragile psyche; she neurotically interprets Westminster council’s questions regarding her claim for assistance to be a ploy to displace and supplant her with a Russian who will pay higher rent. A Norwegian sub-agent who works for the landlord attempts to force Annie to contribute to the shared areas of the building. Annie merely proclaims that she avoids the other tenants: ‘I barely use the stairs. It may be a “shared area” but I don’t use it’, and notes that the man possesses a ‘funny accent’, calling him ‘Mr – I can’t possibly pronounce that name’ ( Smith 2012: 125). Annie’s evident ethnocentrism acts as a diametrically opposed force to Leah’s cosmopolitan empathy in the narrative, indicating how a concentration on ethnic difference alone destabilises and obstructs cultural engagement. More importantly, Annie’s haunting presence highlights the way in which postcolonial melancholia resides alongside cosmopolitan ethics in the narrative, and suggests how cosmopolitan relationality, if not a solution to melancholia, remains an empathetic means of overcoming such regressive approaches to cultural interaction. Wonderful in white! Queen Letizia of Spain opts for chic trouser suit to attend journalism awards with King Felipe Selma Blair reveals a doctor once told her to get a BOYFRIEND after she sought help for agonizing MS symptoms - as she opens up about pain Helen Flanagan sends temperatures soaring in sexy a Santa costumes as she poses for a sizzling social media video Vile moment Palestine activist brands pro-Israel supporters 'killers and child-molesters' before have-a-go heroes shout him down on day 100k marched against anti-Semitism in London

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