Feeling Sideways: Shani Mootoo and Kai Cheng Thom’s Sustainable Affects

Autor:	Libe García Zarranz
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Psychoanalysis General Arts and Humanities media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography 06 humanities and the arts 060202 literary studies Affect (psychology) humanities Feeling 0602 languages and literature Queer Sociology 050703 geography media_common
Zdroj:	University of Toronto Quarterly. 89:88-106
ISSN:	1712-5278 0042-0247
Popis:	Drawing on feminist, queer, trans, and anti-racist theory, this article examines the transmission of affect between racialized queer and trans subjects as a mode of what I call feeling sideways. With this formulation, I seek to spark a discussion about the need to dislodge affect not only from gender and racial normative systems of power but also from linear understandings of growth and temporality. I here follow Kathryn Bond Stockton’s theories of sideways growth (2009) and Heather Love’s notion of backward feelings (2009) to unravel modes of feeling sideways as a potential form of what I call sustainable affect. As case studies, I put two transCanadian works beside each other: Shani Mootoo’s novel Moving Forward Sideways like a Crab (2014) and Kai Cheng Thom’s poetry collection a place called No Homeland (2017). In different but related ways, these texts illustrate how shame, anger, and empathy can become sustainable affects through touch and storytelling, with important ethical repercussions.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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