‘Only English around here, darlin’: His house, anti-location and the social (sur)realist horror of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK
«Здесь все говорят только по-английски, дорогуша»: «Его дом», антилокация и социально-сюрреалистический хоррор о беженцах и просителях убежища в Великобритании
2024-07-09
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Only English around here, darlin': His house, antilocation and the
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It analyzes “anti-location” as a framework for understanding displaced characters’ unstable, contested relationship to place and belonging.
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The film’s horror is interpreted as socially grounded, connecting supernatural or surreal elements with the lived conditions of refugee displacement and asylum seeking.
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The paper examines how *His House* represents refugees and asylum seekers through social (sur)realist horror in the UK.
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The title highlights linguistic exclusion—being told “Only English around here”—as a mechanism of hostility and marginalization.
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refugees and asylum seekers in the UK
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the social (sur)realist horror produced by anti-location and exclusionary Englishness
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