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The Faithful Work of Drowning.”: A Reparative Reading of Ocean Vuong’s “Telemachus
De Chavez, J.; Lin, C.
2020-03-02
Source PublicationThe Explicator
ISSN1939-926X
Volume78Issue:2Pages:66-70
Abstract

This essay speculates on what it might mean to de-privilege a paranoid orientation in favor of a reparative one that strategically withholds suspicion “to open unexpected possibilities, ways of thinking, gestures and tones,” to use the words of Heather Love. Toward that goal, we offer a reparative reading of Ocean Vuong’s “Telemachus”, part of his award-winning collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds, and suggest that it is a poem that writes back to the Western canon. However, we resist evaluating the poem as either subversive or reactionary to argue instead that the poem invites readings that pay close attention to affects oriented toward reparation, which establishes a relation to canonical texts that resists being defined by categories such as good/bad and center/margin, binaries that often undergird paranoid critique.

KeywordAmerican Literature Asian-american Literature Diaspora Affect Theory Reparative Reading
DOI10.1080/00144940.2020.1732280
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Indexed ByA&HCI
Language英語English
WOS Research AreaLiterature
WOS SubjectLiterature
WOS IDWOS:000544108400004
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Scopus ID2-s2.0-85080922134
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Document TypeJournal article
CollectionDEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
Corresponding AuthorDe Chavez, J.
AffiliationUniversity of Macau, Macao
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De Chavez, J.,Lin, C.. The Faithful Work of Drowning.”: A Reparative Reading of Ocean Vuong’s “Telemachus[J]. The Explicator, 2020, 78(2), 66-70.
APA De Chavez, J.., & Lin, C. (2020). The Faithful Work of Drowning.”: A Reparative Reading of Ocean Vuong’s “Telemachus. The Explicator, 78(2), 66-70.
MLA De Chavez, J.,et al."The Faithful Work of Drowning.”: A Reparative Reading of Ocean Vuong’s “Telemachus".The Explicator 78.2(2020):66-70.
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