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  • 4 - Subjectivity at its limits: Fugitive community in Kunzru’s short stories

  • Edited by Kristian Shaw, Sara Upstone
  • Book:
    Hari Kunzru
    Published by:
    Manchester University Press
    Published online:
    19 February 2026, pp 81-102

  • Summary

    Though much critical attention has been paid to Kunzru’s novels, less emphasis has been devoted to his short stories, which reflect the stylistic strategies evident in his wider body of work. Peter Ely argues that Kunzru utilises the short story form as a ‘vital laboratory to test the limits of narrative voice and subjectivity’, expressing a deep concern over lingering structural inequalities and offering radical reconfigurations of contemporary society in the process. Drawing on Jean-Luc Nancy’s writings on the exigency of community and the figure of ‘fugitivity’ in relation to the capitalist state, Ely looks at short stories from across Kunzru’s career, including ‘Deus Ex Machina’ (1998), ‘Memories of the Decadence’ (2005) and ‘The Interns’ (2007), to demonstrate how his work aligns with broader tends evident in the contemporary British novel to represent new forms of cultural interdependence and belonging. Developing this line of thought, Ely interrogates Fred Moten and Stefano Harvey’s emergent paradigm of the ‘undercommons’ to suggest Kunzru’s short fiction resonates with the fugitive framework, imagining new oppositional solidarities and relational possibilities to abolish dominant structures and their inherent structural racisms. In this way, Kunzru emerges as a crucial literary voice in the struggle to attend to forms of capitalist exploitation and racial exclusion which continue to shadow our troubled present.

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