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Kacen Callender's Felix Ever After (2020) and queer epistemologies -…
Kacen Callender's
Felix Ever After
(2020) and queer epistemologies
cry counter is now the rage counter: 10 (throw away some of these trash characters)
the use of rage to get us to a different affective structure
THEN WHY ARE YOU SKIPPING, KID
the genre of mystery
epistemology: the study of how we know what we know; how we make knowledge: this is about knowledge production of racialization, sexualities, etc
is we take seriously that YA lit is about YA agency, what does this help us see about YA epistemologies? Queer-YA epistemologies?
the use of LGBTQ center and narrating "he discourse" (Chapter 13)
How does Callender use different rhetorical moves and registers (different literary techniques) to explore who and how gets to define what a body/life is? (pg 177-87)
the debate of the traditional gender roles: 'There are too many expectations on gender roles, even within the transgender community" (Sarah t(183) -- Queer communities are not all the same and emphasizes indiviual agency/choice; showing "Some of us don't have a gender at all" - Tom ;
refrmaes the "marketplace of ideas" to show how heterogenous ideas circulate
Creating Bex and they/them pronouns: the idea of personal/indivual agency with gender
the email draft: "Your son/child/still to be determined" (179). frames the chapter with exploration, research, and resources
repurposed journaling and literary history of journaling and letters (epistolary novel)
"crack with a weed pushing through" - images of nature to reaffirm change and growth and becoming;
self-portraits and self-fashioning (Jill and the portraits: (pg 172)
chapter is framed by transphobic cyber bullying: "It feels good to tell you the truth" (169). Dramatizes one way of approaching a thing we don't know--maybe fear? Reaffirms that assigned sex at birth; it also sets up empathy with Felix
self-questioning:
and this epistemology is tied to the circulation of the book as book; can this be in libraries? What happens in classrooms?
curriculum development and social control; erasure and making marginal communities and lives
curric and morality: "Morality, at its essence, defines what is human" - this is about the limits of the human; "There needs to be a moral judgmement in creation" (95)
How might this novel teach readers who might not know "trans"
in the most pluralistic, liberal model of the humanities, it's about showing and teaching difference
teaching James cis and "you can't joke about anything anymore" (158) - dramatizing the response about how/why people have emotional attachments to language and "jokes"; it's also some online discourse
again, it's how we produce knowledge--and who has/does not have the language
also shows the ways about who gets education and "educating oneself"; doesn't make Felix do the teaching