“A child isn’t born bitter”: (In)human Relations and Monstrous Affects in Hiromi Goto’s The Kappa Child
This article presents an intersectional reading of Hiromi Goto’s The Kappa Child (2001) through the lens of Affect Theory. Particularly, I draw from Sara Ahmed’s The Promise of Happiness and Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism to analyze the role these notions play in the novel. I focus on the economy o...
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Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
2024-02-01
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| Series: | Canada and Beyond |
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| Online Access: | https://revistas.usal.es/dos/index.php/2254-1179/article/view/31227 |