Billy-Ray Belcourt's loneliness as the affective life of settler colonialism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4367270 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ann Cvetkovich (0000-0003-1929-2018, Carleton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 93-108 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14647001211062727 |
| OpenAlex | W4212771983 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 34 |
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
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Borderlands/La Frontera
Frottage
Marxism, Ideology and Literature
Ethics
The Lonely Letters
Erotics of Sovereignty
Feeling Brown, Feeling Down
Freedom Dreams
Red on Red
Dear Science and Other Stories
Hungry listening resonant theory for indigenous sound studies
An Archive of Feelings
The Feeling of Kinship
Depression
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Suspending Damage
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In the Break
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |