Billy-Ray Belcourt's loneliness as the affective life of settler colonialism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4367270
AutoresAnn Cvetkovich (0000-0003-1929-2018, Carleton University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen23
Número1
Páginas93-108
Fecha de publicación2022-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/14647001211062727
OpenAlexW4212771983
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas34

This article explores loneliness as the affective life of settler colonialism through the work of queer Indigenous (Driftpile Cree) writer Billy-Ray Belcourt's two volumes of poetry This Wound Is a World and NDN Coping Mechanisms . In particular, the article focuses on how Belcourt draws on queer affect theory and critical race theory in the work of scholars such as Jose Muñoz, Leo Bersani, Lauren Berlant, Ann Cvetkovich, Saidiya Hartman and Christina Sharpe - as he explores the relation between sex and death, and between cruising cultures and the ongoing genocide of Indigenous peoples. It argues that Belcourt's innovative fusion of poetry and theory provides new genres for racialised understandings of loneliness and other structures of feeling

Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Feeling · Genocide · Indigenous · Literature · Loneliness · Poetry · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · Theology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Latin American and Latino Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology