Representations of Hunger and Fulfilment in Canadian Two-Spirit and Transgender Coming-of-Age Novels
Hungry for Two-Spirit and Transgender Can Lit? Take in this amazing talk by Dr. Kai Orca McKenzie.
Event
Literature Matters
Representations of Hunger and Fulfilment in Canadian Two-Spirit and Transgender Coming-of-Age Novels
by Dr. Kai Orca McKenzie
Friday, Mar. 18
3-4 pm
Via Zoom
Free and open to the public
Hunger involves feelings of isolation, starvation, dysphoria, and rage, while fulfilment involves feelings of connection, satisfaction, and euphoria. In coming-of-age novels by Joshua Whitehead, Kai Cheng Thom, and Vivek Shraya, affects of hunger and fulfilment come to represent means of healing from forms of insidious trauma generated by transphobic environments.
A question-and-answer period will follow the talk.
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