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"Kind of, In Kind: The Politics of Circulating Feelings in the Writing of Juliana Spahr"

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posted on 2014-01-01, 00:00 authored by Ann VickeryAnn Vickery
Through the life-writing of American poet Juliana Spahr, this essay investigates not only how the lyric is being used by contemporary poets to represent compound feelings but also what relationship affect might have to the political. It considers how Spahr constructs a porous subjectivity that circulates through a system that is simultaneously social, biological, and textual in its environment. Spahr demonstrates how the continually changing relation of self to place and other may lead to a confusion and complexity of feeling. In particular, it focuses on the nested or interrelated nature of what Sianne Ngai has termed ‘ugly feelings’, particularly in terms of sexuality, colonialism, and globalisation. It is argued that Spahr’s poetic navigation of such feeling seeks to locate possibilities for cultural adaptation and transformation.

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Axon: Creative Explorations

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4

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2

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Axon: Creative Explorations

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Canberra

Language

English

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C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

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2014, Axon: Creative Explorations

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