The emotional housekeeping of the world”

Affect in Alice Munro’s and A. L. Kennedy’s post-millennial short stories

Bibliographic Data

ID9002169
AuthorsPilar Somacarrera Íñigo (0000-0001-7898-4407, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, corresponding author), Pilar Somacarrera (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Year2018
Volume55
Issue2
Pages309-325
Publication date2018-11-03
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Commonwealth Literature (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-9894 • E-ISSN: 1741-6442
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0021989418807241
OpenAlexW2898797709
LanguageEN
References cited16

In his introduction to Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature, Michael Gardiner argues for bringing together these two separate bodies of texts which are intimately joined. Within the context of the “‘postcolonial’ spaces of Scotland and Canada” (Gittings, 1995: 135), in this article I offer a comparative reading from the standpoint of Sara Ahmed’s affect theory of the post-millennial short stories of A. L. Kennedy and Alice Munro, based on their shared belief in a transatlantic new humanism which privileges emotions

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