Download the article in PDF to read it.
Download
Appendices
Bibliography
- Ahmed, Sara. The Cultural Politics of Emotion. Routledge, 2004.
- Ahmed, Sara. The Promise of Happiness. Duke UP, 2010.
- Ahmed, Sara. Willful Subjects. Duke UP, 2014.
- Amin, Kadji. “Haunted by the 1990s: Queer Theory’s Affective Histories.” wsq: Women’s Studies Quarterly 44.3–4 (2016): 173–89.
- Barad, Karen. “Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 28.3 (2003): 801–31.
- Barad, Karen. “On Touching—The Inhuman That Therefore I Am.” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 23.3 (2012): 206–23.
- Braidotti, Rosi. The Posthuman. Polity, 2013.
- Braidotti, Rosi. “A Theoretical Framework for the Critical Posthumanities.” Theory, Culture, Society 36.6 (2018): 1–31.
- Brown, Wendy. “Wounded Attachments.” States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity. Princeton UP, 1995. 53–76.
- Butler, Judith. Precarious Life. The Powers of Mourning and Violence. Verso, 2004.
- Casteel, Sarah P. “New World Pastoral: The Caribbean Garden and Emplacement in Gisèle Pineau and Shani Mootoo.” Interventions 5.1 (2003): 12–28.
- Chen, Mel Y. Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect. Duke UP, 2012.
- Corr, John. “Queer Nostalgia and Unnatural Disgust in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night.” Journal of West Indian Literature 14 (2005): 67–95.
- Crenshaw, Kimberle. “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics.” University of Chicago Legal Forum 140 (1989): 139–67.
- Cuomo, Chris. Feminism and Ecological Communities: An Ethic of Flourishing. Routledge, 1998.
- Cvetkovick, Ann. Depression: A Public Feeling. Duke UP, 2012.
- Eng, David, Judith Halberstam, and José E. Muñoz. “What’s Queer about Queer Studies Now?” Special issue. Social Text 23 (2005): 1–17.
- Escudero-Alías, Maite. “ ‘Softer than Cotton, Stronger than Steel’: Metaphor and Trauma in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night.” The Splintered Glass: Facets of Trauma in the Post-Colony and Beyond. Eds. Dolores Herrero and Sonia Baelo-Allustré. Rodopi, 2011. 135–53.
- Flatley, Jonathan. Affective Mapping. Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism. Harvard UP, 2008.
- Gregg, Melissa, and Gregory Seigworth, eds. The Affect Theory Reader. Duke UP, 2010.
- Helff, Sissy, and Sanghamitra Dalal. “The Quest for an Identity in Shani Mootoo’s Valmiki’s Daughter.” Rocky Mountain Review 66. Special Issue: Border Crossing. 2012: 73–84.
- Kristeva, Julia. Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia. Columbia UP, 1989.
- Landry, Donna. The Invention of the Countryside: Hunting, Walking, and Ecology in English Literature, 1671–1831. Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.
- Love, Heather. Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History. Harvard UP, 2007.
- Makeda, Silvera. Piece of my Heart: A Lesbian of Colour Anthology. Toronto: Sister Vision, 1991.
- Mbembe, Achille. “Necropolitics.” Public Culture 15.1 (2003): 11–40.
- McCormack, Donna. “ ‘Dreaming Across the Sea’ ”: Queer Postcolonial Belongings in Shani Mootoo’s Novels.” Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association E-Journal 2.2 (2006): 1–15.
- Menéndez-Tarrazo, Alicia. “Bridge Indians and Cultural Bastards: Narratives of Urban Exclusion in the World’s ‘Most Liveable’ City.” Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies 31.2 (2009): 95–109.
- Moraga, Cherríe, and Gloria Anzaldúa, eds. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Persephone Press, 1983.
- Mortimer-Sandilands, Catriona. “Melancholy Natures, Queer Ecologies.” Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire. Eds. Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson. Indiana UP, 2010. 331–58.
- Mortimer-Sandilands, Catriona, and Bruce Erickson, eds. Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire. Indiana UP, 2010.
- Mootoo, Shani. Out on Main Street. Press Gang Publishers, 1993.
- Munt, Sally. Queer Attachments: The Cultural Politics of Shame. Ashgate, 2008.
- Rushdie, Salman. Shame. Vintage, 1995.
- Sedgewick, Eve K. Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity. Duke UP, 2003.
- Sedgewick, Eve K and Adam Frank, eds. Shame and Its Sisters: A Silvan Tomkins Reader. Duke UP, 1995.
- Soja, Edward. Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory. Verso, 1989.
- Spivak, Gayatri. “Bonding in Difference: Interview with Alfred Arteaga.” The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of Gayati Chakravorty Spivak. Eds. Donna Landry and Gerald Maclean. Routledge, 1996. 15–29.
- Stein, Rachel. “ ‘The Place, Promised, That Has Not Yet Been’: The Nature of Dislocation and Desire in Adrienne Rich’s Your Native Land/Your Life and Minnie Bruce Pratt’s Crime Against Nature.” Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire. Eds. Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson. Indiana UP, 2010. 285–308.
- Sugars, Cynthia, and Eleanor Ty, eds. Canadian Literature and Cultural Memory. Oxford UP, 2014.
- Tomkins, Silvan S. Affect Imagery Consciousness, 1962–1992. 4 vols. Springer, 1992.
- Wiegman, Robin. “The Times We’re In: Queer Feminist Criticism and the Reparative ‘Turn.’ ” Feminist Theory 15.1 (2014): 4–25.