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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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. / Bissenbakker, Mons.
In: European Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 25, No. 1, 01.02.2018, p. 102-115.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - How to bring your daughter up to be a feminist killjoy
T2 - Shame, accountability and the necessity of paranoid reading in Lene Kaaberbøl’s The Shamer Chronicles
AU - Bissenbakker, Mons
PY - 2018/2/1
Y1 - 2018/2/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Affect
KW - fantasy literature
KW - feminism
KW - feminist killjoys
KW - paranoid reading
KW - shame
U2 - 10.1177/1350506813519983
DO - 10.1177/1350506813519983
M3 - Journal article
VL - 25
SP - 102
EP - 115
JO - European Journal of Women's Studies
JF - European Journal of Women's Studies
SN - 1350-5068
IS - 1
ER -
ID: 201459842