Exploring British Identity in Post-Brexit Literature

Introduction

From the UK's departure from the EU since 2016, no one has been able to overlook the change in the manner that British identity is constructed, debated, and contested. Politics and economics are no longer the only concerns—neither is culture and literature to be ignored. The referendum was not a simple decision; it was one of national importance that upset long-held conceptions of who we are as a nation. Of course, authors throughout the UK have responded to these developments in the way literature can only—by publishing stories that address this new Post-Brexit Britishness.

This article examines how British writers have incorporated Brexit into their fiction and poetry, how notions of national identity and belonging have evolved, and what that is telling us about the UK identity in books today. This is not reading for bookworms alone—it's...