Somaesthetics of Hegemonic Discomfort

M.D. Tschaepe

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Page Range:: 99–152

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004714861_006

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Chapter 4, ‘Somaesthetics of Hegemonic Discomfort,’ addresses how normative imposition discomforts and alienates others. The chapter begins with three experiential accounts concerning hegemonic discomfort and alienation. The narratives are from Audre Lorde, David Wojnarowicz, and Jennifer Blevins. Following these brief narratives, alienation is defined and related to epistemic injustice. To interrogate discomfort as it contributes to alienating others, the film Ordinary People is used as an example. In this chapter, the focus on the film is the character of Beth, played by Mary Tyler Moore. After a summary and a somaesthetic analysis of how hegemony and normativity cause discomfort and alienation within the scope of the film, the narratives at the beginning of the chapter are addressed. The first narrative analyzed regarding discomfort and alienation is by Audre Lorde. The dynamics that impose discomfort and alienation upon her are interrogated, focusing mostly on race. Concepts and analysis from George Yancy, Shannon Sullivan, and Richard Shusterman, as well as related narratives from Dwight A. McBride, Saeed Jones, and George M. Johnson are included. With Lorde’s writing, these narratives provide intersectional accounts of race and racism with sexuality, gender, and illness. The second narrative is from David Wojnarowicz, and focuses on his writing about sexuality and living with HIV. This section provides a somaesthetic analysis of heteronormativity as a cause of somatic discomfort and alienation. The third narrative, which is Jennifer Blevins’s about body shaming, is combined with work from writers such as Kimberly Dark and Roxane Gay. Standards imposed upon bodies that are based on mythic conceptions of fat are presented. This chapter includes a narrative from Rebekah Taussig about people’s reactions to her using a wheelchair. This account leads into Garland-Thomson’s work on normativity and disability, which is used to develop somaesthetics of discomfort for decentering privileged experience and undermining alienation that is rooted in hegemonic discomfort.

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Somaesthetics of Discomfort: Addressing Identity, Normativity, and Alienation

丛编： Studies in Somaesthetics, 卷： 9

ISBN:: 9789004714861

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 26 Nov 2024

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