Sonja Boon

Biographic Data

ID3943034
NAMESonja Boon
GIVEN NAMESSonja
FAMILY NAMEBoon
SIGNATUREBOON S
AFFILIATIONSMemorial University of Newfoundland
ORCID0000-0002-4967-5012
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS11
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • Margot I. Duley. Extraordinary Passages

    Open AccessSonja BoonARTICLENewfoundland and Labrador Studies2023

    Margot I. Duley. Extraordinary Passages: The Life and Times of Margaret Iris Duley, Newfoundland’s Pathbreaking Novelist. Un article de la revue Newfoundland and Labrador Studies (Volume 38, numéro 2, automne 2023) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit

  • Bitter/Love

    Sonja BoonARTICLELife Writing2021References: 7

    In this essay, developed around a series of childhood autoethnographic reflections and a selection of archival and other materials rearranged as found poetry, I consider the emotional valences of the mixed-race body archive (and the mixed-race body as archive), considering the role, function, and effect of emotions on identity. Moving through imagination, dreams, shame, longing, resistance, desire, violence, and rage, I ultimately end on a more e…

  • The Impossibility of a Future in the Absence of a Past

    Open AccessSonja Boon, Kate LaheyARTICLEAtlantis2019

    In this collaborative paper, we bring the work of Billy-Ray Belcourt, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Dionne Brand, and M. NourbeSe Philip into conversation in order to consider the concept of drift. Drawing on drift as both metaphor and methodology, we argue that drifting is not aimless or passive, as dictionary definitions suggest; rather, as a form of refusal, to follow the work of Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang (2014a, 2014b), it can be understood a…

  • Vulnerability

    Open AccessSonja Boon, Lesley Butler et al.CHAPTERAutoethnography and Feminist…2018

  • God's Will

    Open AccessSonja BoonARTICLECulture Studies ↔ Critical…2018Cited by: 2References: 6

    This autoethnographic essay examines the complexity of reproductive storytelling. Framed around a pair of interwoven reproductive stories, and located within a reproductive justice framework, it asserts that women's stories of fertility, pregnancy, contraception, and abortion have, both historically and in the contemporary period, been marked by silences. Such silences, the result of political, legal, social, and moral forces beyond women's contr…

  • Autoethnography and Feminist Theory at the Water's Edge

    Open AccessSonja Boon, Lesley Butler et al.BOOKAutoethnography and Feminist…2018Cited by: 8

  • Unarrested Archives

    Sonja BoonARTICLELife Writing2016References: 2

  • Dusting for Fingerprints

    Open AccessSonja BoonARTICLELife Writing2016References: 8

    In this paper, I consider the politics of bodily and embodied identity as they emerge in the lived experience of racial and ethnic hybridity. I confront the tensions that emerge when the data of the bodily self encounters the lived subjectivities of the embodied self. I employ an autoethnographic approach that weaves together memory work with autobiographical writings on hybridity and mixture and critical scholarship in life writing

  • Vulnerability, Longing, and Stigma in Hélène Cixous's

    Sonja BoonARTICLESubStance2013

  • Autobiography by Numbers; or, Embodying Maternal Grief

    Sonja BoonARTICLELife Writing2012Cited by: 1References: 1

    Much has been written about maternal grief in recent years. Very little of this work, however, has considered the embodied or corporeal nature of such grief. Using a critical autobiographical approach, this paper suggests the need to examine critically the bodily grief that ensues after a trauma that permanently changes the body for the worse, the endlessness of this kind of corporeal grief, and the struggle of living with it, in both conceptual …