Transnational Feminism and Affective Communities as Resistance to Technopatriarchy: The Instapoetry of Nikita Gill and Monika Radojevic

Séamus O'Kane; Adelina Sánchez-Espinosa

doi:10.14198/fem.30891

Autores/as

Séamus O'Kane Universidad de Granada, España https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9810-0357
Adelina Sánchez-Espinosa Universidad de Granada, España https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5872-1431

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14198/fem.30891

Palabras clave:

tecnopatriarcado, literatura transnacional, identidad transnacional, feminismo transnacional, estudios literarios feministas, lectura analítica feminista, instapoesía, comunidad afectiva, Nikita Gill, Monika Radojevic

Resumen

El presente artículo se propone articular una aproximación feminista al concepto de comunidad que se distancie de los modelos comunitarios patriarcales para converger hacia las genealogías feministas, la ética del cuidado y las comunidades afectivas. El estudio entabla un diálogo crítico con las teorías de la comunidad de Jean-Luc Nancy y Maurice Blanchot, atendiendo específicamente a sus formulaciones sobre las comunidades operativas, inoperantes e inconfesables. Posteriormente, la investigación transita hacia una propuesta de construcción comunitaria feminista fundamentada en los conceptos de vulnerabilidad, afecto y solidaridad feminista transnacional, nutriéndose de las genealogías de académicas como Chandra Talpade Mohanty y Monica Rogowska-Stangret. Se presentan las Comunidades Afectivas Feministas como un modelo comunitario que promueve el respeto por la alteridad, los conocimientos y respuestas situados, y la conciencia sobre la opresión –especialmente en razón de género– y sus intersecciones con otras formas de subordinación. Este modelo reivindica la conciencia de un colectivo que trasciende lo individual y apuesta por alianzas voluntarias, arraigadas en el afecto, con la voluntad y capacidad de propiciar transformaciones sociales. Dichas alianzas transnacionales resultan imperativas frente al tecnopatriarcado y proveen vínculos necesarios en un mundo globalizado. Asimismo, se examina la relevancia y el contexto del «giro transnacional» en los estudios literarios y su vinculación con la recepción de la instapoesía. Mediante una metodología de lectura analítica feminista (feminist close-reading), las autoras demuestran cómo las Comunidades Afectivas Feministas se materializan en las interacciones entre autoría, texto y público lector dentro de un entorno digital y transnacional. Finalmente, se analizan los casos de estudio de dos poetas transnacionales, Nikita Gill y Monika Radojevic, para evidenciar cómo la teoría de las Comunidades Afectivas Feministas fundamenta una lectura crítica de la instapoesía y cómo estas comunidades son mediadas por las formas literarias y las respuestas afectivas.

Financiación

This research was supported by the 101073012 EUTERPE HORIZONMSCA-2021-DN-01 Project. EUTERPE: European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective is a European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement. The research has been funded by this project. The EUTERPE Project is led by Jasmina Lukic at the Central European University, Vienna. Adelina Sánchez-Espinosa is the Principal Investigator at the University of Granada.

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