In Defense of Specters: Ambivalent Mourning as Queer Affect.
In this paper, I argue for theorizing ambivalent mourning as a queer affect and practice, opening up the possibility of sitting and reckoning with past and ongoing state-sanctioned violence, war, disorder, and mass deaths. To do so, I use a hybrid text—employing auto-ethnography and an analysis of t...
| Publicado en: | Feminist Formations Vol. 34; no. 3; pp. 82 - 106 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Winter2022
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