短篇小说集《英格兰与其他故事》围绕地方与英格兰性的关系这一主题,通过对蕴藏于英格兰地方的暴力创伤历史记忆的书写,解构了英格兰绿色、安宁的“乡村神话”和宏大历史叙事;通过讲述包括少数族裔在内的少数群体地方迁移的故事,用英格兰的差异多元现实解构了同质化的英格兰性。斯威夫特在阈限空间中找到当代英格兰性的典型地理,并用“普遍的人文主义”的文学叙事为英格兰人寻找新的归属感。 Short stories “England and Other Stories” around the theme of the relationship between the local and the nature of England, by writing on the historical memory of violence tragedies hidden in England, deconstruct England’s green, tranquil “Village Myth ” and grand history Narrative; deconstructing the homogeneity of England with the pluralistic reality of differences in England by telling stories about the relocation of minorities, including ethnic minorities. Swift found the typical geography of contemporary England in the threshold space and sought a new sense of belonging for the Greeks with a literary narrative of “universal humanism.”