EMOTIONAL ECO-MATERNITY AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF ANIMAL FEELING: DECOLONIAL KINSHIP IN VIRGINIA PESEMAPEO BORDELEAU’S WORKS.
This article explores the intersection of animal emotionality and Indigenous maternal experience in the literary works of Virginia Pesemapeo Bordeleau. Through the theoretical framework termed emotional eco-maternity, an onto-epistemological praxis of care situated at the nexus of affect theory, Ind...
| Publicado en: | Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies & Theory Vol. 11; no. 2; pp. 95 - 120 |
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Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, Faculty of Letters
Dec2025
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