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Narrative and Compassion: Heteronormativity, Citizenship and the Role of Feelings

In this paper I trace how the representation of an individual narrative of suffering articulates with different forms of a core set of national values, and, finally, how it is invested in and by normative ideals. Furthermore, I question ‘naturalized’ assumptions of compassion, which often frame representations of narratives of pain, love and anger in the service of systematic inequalities. Or, to paraphrase Berlant (2004), I examine how compassion, as an imagined aesthetics becomes more valued than suffering.

narrative and emotional identi fications, intimate public spheres, nations as objects of feelings, narratives of pain, compassion, heteronormativity and citizenship

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