%0 Journal Article
%T How to bring your daughter up to be a feminist killjoy: Shame, accountability and the necessity of paranoid reading in Lene Kaaberb£¿l¡¯s The Shamer Chronicles
%A Mons Bissenbakker
%J European Journal of Women's Studies
%@ 1461-7420
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1350506813519983
%X This article takes The Shamer Chronicles, the teenage fantasy series by the Danish author Lene Kaaberb£¿l, as an example of a queer feminist affect theoretical thought experiment. It shows how Kaaberb£¿l¡¯s tetralogy allows us to link shame and paranoid/reparative reading with the figure of the feminist killjoy. The Chronicles can be read as a meditation on shame as a form of accountability and the shaming killjoy as a heroic figure who insists on paranoid vision as the precondition for reparative imagination. The article elaborates postcolonial criticisms of shame theories, showing how racialisation makes a difference in which forms of shame are marked as (un)acceptable. Rather than dismiss shame theories altogether, the article explores how such criticisms can be integrated into, and thus further qualify, a critical shame reading of The Chronicles
%K Affect
%K fantasy literature
%K feminism
%K feminist killjoys
%K paranoid reading
%K shame
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1350506813519983