RT Book, Section
T1 Death-worlds and necropolitics of abjection in Emma Donoghue’s "Counting the Days"
A1 Martín Lucas, María Belén
A2 Peter Lang
K1 6202.02 Análisis Literario
AB Reading Emma Donoghue’s short story ‘Counting the Days’ as a text that inscribes theIrish passage in TransCanadian literature,1 this chapter will focus on the cross- bordertransit from Ireland to Canada depicted in the story as responding to forces operating inthe long history of globalization. Mobility forced by financial debt and the risk of starvationin the mid- nineteenth- century Irish context is a form of necropolitics: the bodiescrossing the pathogeographic space of the Atlantic face physical and emotional risks, andeconomic refugees remain perilously marginalized upon arrival in their new society.With recourse to affect theories, this chapter will examine how Donoghue brings to theforefront the necropolitics of both old and current biocapitalism, how abjection producesanger and how this anger materializes in cholera and ultimately in death.
SN 9781800797277
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK http://hdl.handle.net/11093/7116
UL http://hdl.handle.net/11093/7116
LA eng
NO En A. Rosende Pérez, R. Jarazo Álvarez (Eds.) The cultural politics of in/difference: Irish texts and contexts (147-167)
NO Agencia Estatal de Investigación | Ref. FFI2017-84555-C2-2-P
DS Investigo
RD 14-sep-2024