Brooklyn Gentrification and the Act of Settling in Lionel Shriver’s The Mandibles

Contemporary Brooklyn fictions, as a genre, are centrally concerned with gentrification and authenticity. This article situates literary these concerns in relation to the United States at national level. Thinking about Brooklyn’s demands one be necessarily cognizant of borough social, cultural, economic, psychological space within context US colonial nation-state. I argue that Lionel Shriver’s The Mandibles (2016), whose titular characters enactors both romanticized act settlement fictional new nation-state, exemplifies this link between local level search for authenticity Through reading novel, is intimately bound settler colonialism, which sustained by novel’s representations finance whiteness its narrative focalization.