Transgenerational Affect and Cultural (Self)Acceptance in Two TransCanadian Short Stories

  1. Belén Martín-Lucas 1
  1. 1 Universidade de Vigo
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    Universidade de Vigo

    Vigo, España

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Revista:
Atlantis: Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos

ISSN: 0210-6124

Ano de publicación: 2018

Volume: 40

Número: 1

Páxinas: 193-211

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.28914/ATLANTIS-2018-40.1.10 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso aberto editor

Outras publicacións en: Atlantis: Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos

Resumo

Este artículo ofrece un estudio comparado de dos relatos transcanadienses de autoría feminista: “A Habit of Waste” (2001) de Nalo Hopkinson, y “We are not in Pakistan” (2007) de Shauna Singh Baldwin. Ambos relatos están protagonizados por mujeres jóvenes descendientes de inmigrantes en Norteamérica—Cynthia, del Caribe, y Kathleen, de Pakistán, respectivamente—que aspiran a encajar en los modelos dominantes de feminidad postfeminista. Ambas narrativas trazan un cambio de actitud similar en las protagonistas, que va del rechazo absoluto de sus cuerpos racializados y sexualizados a la aceptación de su hibridismo cultural. Este proceso se desencadena a través de las relaciones afectivas de estas chicas con dos personajes de edad avanzada que para ellas representan la cultura minorizada que repudian, y al igual que su propia percepción de sí mismas, sus afectos también cambian del rechazo al respeto. Mi análisis subrayará las políticas interseccionales en relación al género, raza y clase que sus textos comparten, así como su postura crítica común frente al postfeminismo más popular y el neoliberalismo hegemónico.

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