How to bring your daughter up to be a feminist killjoy: Shame, accountability and the necessity of paranoid reading in Lene Kaaberbøl’s The Shamer Chronicles
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This article takes The Shamer Chronicles, the teenage fantasy series by
the Danish author Lene Kaaberbol, as an example of a queer feminist
affect theoretical thought experiment. It shows how Kaaberbol's
tetralogy allows us to link shame and paranoid/reparative reading with
the figure of the feminist killjoy. The Chronicles can be read as a
meditation on shame as a form of accountability and the shaming killjoy
as a heroic figure who insists on paranoid vision as the precondition
for reparative imagination. The article elaborates postcolonial
criticisms of shame theories, showing how racialisation makes a
difference in which forms of shame are marked as (un)acceptable. Rather
than dismiss shame theories altogether, the article explores how such
criticisms can be integrated into, and thus further qualify, a critical
shame reading of The Chronicles.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Tidsskrift | European Journal of Women's Studies |
Vol/bind | 25 |
Udgave nummer | 1 |
Sider (fra-til) | 102-115 |
Antal sider | 14 |
ISSN | 1350-5068 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - 1 feb. 2018 |
ID: 201459842