Becoming the Rhizomatic Outsider: A Study of the Narrative Deconstruction of Being in Ali Smith’s The Accidental

Ali Smith’s novels and short stories are violently realistic in terms of depicting the hollow disconnected lives postmodern individual. However, they also, albeit obliquely, aspire for hope change. The loss a sense location, direction, and, as result, meaningful presence is interwoven Accidental’s persistent concern with time. Accordingly, this essay, drawing upon Michael Kane’s analysis time space, Accidental studied regard to capitalist simulacra, culture pastiche spectacle, spatiotemporal fragmentation. Within backdrop informed by Derridean deconstruction complemented study’s Deleuzian framework, novel’s subversive deconstructions metaphysics being substitution fictional becoming explored. It argued that corporealizes supplementarity employs rhizomatic disruptions characters structure narrative open up deterritorized spaces monoritarian authenticity, agency, creativity.