Hostile Households

Deportability and Reproductive Geography in Brown’s Assembly and Varvello’s "Brexit Blues"

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https://doi.org/10.51427/com.jcs.2024.6.6

Palavras-chave:

corpos fronteiriços, geopolítica da intimidade, Brexlit, literatura negra britânica; escala, escala

Resumo

Este artigo argumenta que os Estudos Comparativos mostram adequadamente como a literatura pode servir como um recurso original para animar debates geopolíticos interdisciplinares, contribuindo de maneiras importantes para outras disciplinas (neste caso, teoria social e política) e as teorias usadas para analisá-las. Focando na análise comparativa de duas obras de ficção que lidam com as repercussões íntimas da retórica e das políticas de ambiente hostil do Reino Unido sobre casais transnacionais, o artigo mostra como as obras desafiam e complicam o conceito de “community of value” de Bridget Anderson (2013) e adicionam elementos significativos à teoria dà política cultural das emoções (2014) de Sara Ahmed. Por meio de uma abordagem comparativa à discussão sobre como a deportabilidade afeta a intimidade e os relacionamentos românticos, considero o conto de Marco Varvello “Brexit Blues” (2018) e o romance Assembly (2021) de Natasha Brown como projetos literários de “dobramento de escala” (Smith 2004) que destacam o deslizamento escalar entre família e nação para revelar os entrelaçamentos da migração e da política reprodutiva no atual “contexto climático de anti-negritude” (Gedalof 2022) e da eugenia da imigração (D’Aoust 2022).

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Biografia Autor

Vanessa Montesi, University of Sunderland, Reino Unido

Vanessa Montesi is a Lecturer in Dance Studies at the University of Sunderland, having moved there on a spouse visa. She is the author of Dance as Intermedial Translation, published by Leuven University Press (2024). Her articles on dance and translation have been published by TIS, JosTrans, Babel, Chaiers de Littérature Orale and other journals. She collaborates with the Centre for Comparative Studies of the University of Lisbon, where she is currently coediting a multilingual and multimedia zine on (co)habitation with Nicola Giansiracusa and Marzia D’Amico. She has been a researh assistant for Dramaturgical Ecologies at Concordia University, working closely with Angélique Willkie on a project examining the intersections between blackness and dance dramaturgy.

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2024-12-28

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Montesi, Vanessa. 2024. «Hostile Households: Deportability and Reproductive Geography in Brown’s Assembly and Varvello’s “Brexit Blues”». Compendium: Journal of Comparative Studies | Revista De Estudos Comparatistas, n. 6 (Dezembro). Lisboa, Portugal:83-99. https://doi.org/10.51427/com.jcs.2024.6.6.

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