This article reflects on the emotional aspects of reading through the queerness of life. Readings during childhood affect the queer child’s mind – when other queer references are absent, and literature becomes the only area that mirrors one’s desires. Those early readings do, this article argues, affect later views on what is a possible relationship, what is a fictional and artistic desire, and patterns of reading – including academic interests. The article uses an autoethnographical method to revisit the author’s early academic or essayistic writings and use the overlapping of literature and life as a way to understand queer desires and possibilities to think about oneself.
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Volume 1 | Issue 1 | Year 2023 | Article Id: LLL-V1I1P101 DOI: https://doi.org/10.59232/LLL-V1I1P101
Emotional Academia and a Queer Feud
Anna Nygren
| Received | Revised | Accepted | Published |
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| 09 Feb 2023 | 16 Feb 2023 | 23 Feb 2023 | 31 Mar 2023 |
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Anna Nygren. “Emotional Academia and a Queer Feud.” DS Journal of Language, Linguistics and Literature, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-7, 2023.
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Keywords
Affect, Feminism, Nordic literature, Reader experience, Queer.
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