Literature Matters: Representations of Hunger and Fulfilment in Canadian Two-Spirit and Transgender Coming-of-Age Novels
A question-and-answer session will follow this public talk by Dr. Kai Orca McKenzie
Event
Date: Friday, March 18, 2022
Time: 3 pm - 4 pm
Location: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Dr. Kai Orca McKenzie
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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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