The Image of the United States in Meredith Talusan’s Fairest

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The Image of the United States in Meredith Talusan’s Fairest

ZLÁMALOVÁ, Karolína

Základní údaje

Originální název

The Image of the United States in Meredith Talusan’s Fairest

Autoři

ZLÁMALOVÁ, Karolína

Vydání

6th International Conference of English and American Studies, Silesian Studies in English – SILSE 2021, 9-10t September 2021, Institute of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Philosophy and Science, Silesian University in Opava, 2021

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60206 Specific literatures

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

queer studies; life writing; Meredith Talusan

Příznaky

Recenzováno

Změněno: 14. 1. 2023 17:21, Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

Drawing on my PhD research on contemporary North American queer immigrant life writing, the presentation will discuss the ways in which the United States as a new homeland are approached and portrayed in the 2020 memoir Fairest by Meredith Talusan. Touching on the westernization of the term queer and related themes of queer imperialism and Jasbir Puar’s homonationalism (2007); on the calls to decolonize and decentralize queer studies (Oswin 2004); and drawing on the work of Sara Ahmed (2004), the presentation will focus on examining whether and how the Western cultural hegemony demonstrates itself in the text by an immigrant author who was since childhood presented with the ideas of superiority of the Western-North American culture. Specifically, the presentation will concentrate on how this portrayal of the United States by Talusan is influenced by her queerness (while admitting the impossibility to avoid the intersection with her immigrant, racial, and disabled status). Furthermore, it will point to the strategies that Talusan as an author from the Global South, which is often depicted as regressive and hostile towards queer individuals, uses to depict both her dreams and the reality of her new homeland of the United States through this queer lens. Oswin, Natalie. “Decentering Queer Globalization: Diffusion and the ‘Global Gay.’” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, vol. 24, 2004, pp. 777-790. Puar, Jasbir K. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Duke UP, 2007. Ahmed, Sara. The Cultural Politics of Emotion. Routledge, 2004.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1446/2020, interní kód MU

Název: Paradigms, strategies and developments - Anglophone literary and cultural studies

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Paradigms, strategies and developments - Anglophone literary and cultural studies

Citovat

ZLÁMALOVÁ, Karolína. The Image of the United States in Meredith Talusan’s Fairest. In 6th International Conference of English and American Studies, Silesian Studies in English – SILSE 2021, 9-10t September 2021, Institute of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Philosophy and Science, Silesian University in Opava. 2021.

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ZLÁMALOVÁ, Karolína. The Image of the United States in Meredith Talusan’s Fairest. In \textit{6th International Conference of English and American Studies, Silesian Studies in English – SILSE 2021, 9-10t September 2021, Institute of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Philosophy and Science, Silesian University in Opava}. 2021.

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