Collective Care as Affective Justice in Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11272097 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hyunjoo Yu (Independent Scholar ,, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 133-153 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | MELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-755X • E-ISSN: 1946-3170 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/melus/mlae050 |
| OpenAlex | W4403623016 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
This essay focuses on the body-sentimentality connections in Frances E.W. Harper’s 1892 novel, Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted. This essay examines how Iola Leroy foregrounds affective Black bodies as a mutable site of future-oriented pedagogy, which resists not only the liberal sentimental culture’s insistence on seeing Black bodies only as a vessel of anti-Black violence but also the popular scientific imagination that predicted that Black American heredity is irrelevant to imperialist US modernity. This physical-sentimental pedagogy practiced by Iola Leroy’s Black community members nurtures and invests in affective Black bodies as a potential to reconstruct Black life and futures within extended, less private versions of home. In doing so, Harper moves away from liberal individualism at the core of sentimental culture and thinks of alternative modernities based on solidarity and collective care that are outside the eugenicist destiny in which Black life is not imagined. To think of the political significance of this movement, this essay situates Iola Leroy’s imagination of the otherwise-future against US sentimental culture
Art · Art history · Economic Justice · Law and economics · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Canadian Identity and History · Law · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology
Scenes of subjection
The Biopolitics of Feeling
Reconstructing Womanhood
Relative Races
Spiritual Interrogations
Beyond Respectability
Frances Harper’s Religion of Responsibility in Sowing and Reaping
The Coupling Convention
Discarded Legacy
Doers of the Word
Maternity and Black Women's Citizenship in Frances Watkins Harper's Early Poetry and Late Prose
Elian, Iola Leroy, and Other Reluctant Citizens
Humans Involved
Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom
Fugitive science
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |