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Disease, Desire, and Devotion: Mobilities and Becoming-(M)other in Jen Sookfong Lee's The Better Mother
Canadian Literature ; - (245):106-125,193, 2021.
Article in English | ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-1527310
ABSTRACT
The Better Mother tells the story of how Danny Lim, a gay Chinese Canadian man, negotiates the tensions between his sexual orientation and his patriarchal family, between his pursuit of art and beauty and the banality and monotony that permeate Vancouver's Chinatown, and between his desire for a glamorous mother and dissatisfaction with his homely and dowdy mother. Peter Merriman, in his call for an expansion of mobility studies in Micro-Mobilities in Lockdown" further draws scholarly attention to embodied micro-mobilities, which are defined as the myriad bodily movements and mobile embodied practices involved in all manner of actions, events, and systems, from the bodily movements involved in walking, driving, and flying, to the embodied movements involved in virus transmission and infection control (54). Bringing the frameworks of becoming and embodied micro-mobilities into dialogue as a critical lens through which to address the issue of AIDS in The Better Mother, this article argues that interracial and queer forms of care have the potential to mitigate the impact of AIDS upon queer mobilities, both physical and metaphysical, and trouble heteronormativity. [...]those infected, as Danny has noticed, show different symptoms and suffer from different diseases that result from HIV.
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Collection: Databases of international organizations Database: ProQuest Central Language: English Journal: Canadian Literature Year: 2021 Document Type: Article