New Sustainable Bodies in TransitTransnational Affects in Some (South-East Asian) Canadian Women Writers

  1. María Jesús Llarena Ascanio 1
  1. 1 Universidad de La Laguna
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    Universidad de La Laguna

    San Cristobal de La Laguna, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01r9z8p25

Libro:
Moving beyond the pandemic: English and American studies in Spain
  1. Francisco Gallardo-del-Puerto (coord.)
  2. Mª del Carmen Camus-Camus (coord.)
  3. Jesús Ángel González-López (coord.)

Editorial: Editorial de la Universidad de Cantabria ; Universidad de Cantabria

ISBN: 978-84-19024-15-2

Año de publicación: 2022

Páginas: 195-200

Congreso: Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos. Congreso (44. 2021. Santander)

Tipo: Aportación congreso

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Resumen

This paper studies the articulation of aesthetics of affects by some South-East Asian Canadian refugee collectivities beyond state designations. Souvankham Thammavongsa’s aesthetics of heterogeneity in her last collection of stories How to Pronounce Knife shows its belongingness to a plurality of immigrant voices with various perspectives, interests and drives. I look at the centrality of affective relations in the transformation of subjectivity under processes of a growing (un)happiness in the diasporic homeSpace. I will try to conceptualize this refugee labour of challenging, transforming, asserting, and carving out ways of living as acts of “refugee worldmaking” after the suffering of people on a scale that Michel Foucault described in 1979 as “unprecedented in modern history.”

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