ROMAN SARAH WATERS THE LITTLE STRANGER KAO MJESTO UKAZIVANJA I PROBLEMATIZIRANJA DUHOVA KLASOM OPTEREĆENE BRITANSKE PROŠLOSTI
SARAH WATERS’ NOVEL THE LITTLE STRANGER AS A PLACE OF SUMMONING AND CHALLENGING THE GHOSTS OF CLASS-RIDDEN BRITISH PAST

Summary/Abstract: Sarah Waters’ novel The Little Stranger (2009) problematizes the issue of class identity in post-war Britain through the interplay of the Gothic and postmodernism. The aim of this paper is to address the ways in which the presence of spectral energies and concepts of class identity become intertwined in the notion of the sublime. Acknowledging unrepresentability as a key characteristic of the sublime, we shall analyze the never fully articulated historical and cultural factors essential to the construction of class consciousness at a specific moment in British history – when class borders were seemingly being redefined. Furthermore, we shall draw attention to the author’s postmodernist intervention within the traditional gothic genre, thus relating the postmodernist awareness of the unrepresentability of the past, and notions such as class, to the issue of identity construction as a vital component of the gothic novel.

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