Precarity, Violence and the Intersection of Race, Class and Gender in Roanna Gonsalves’ The Permanent Resident

In a similar gesture, the narrator's husband's psychological cruelty and emotional withdrawal are also naturalised by Gloria, in this instance as part of middle-class marriage. Because he didn't abuse her verbally or hit the narrator he is, by default, a 'decent man' (36) in...

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Veröffentlicht in:Australian humanities review 2019-05 (64), p.102-120
1. Verfasser: Brewster, Anne
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Zusammenfassung:In a similar gesture, the narrator's husband's psychological cruelty and emotional withdrawal are also naturalised by Gloria, in this instance as part of middle-class marriage. Because he didn't abuse her verbally or hit the narrator he is, by default, a 'decent man' (36) in Gloria's eyes. [...]the responsibility for resolving the awkwardness that arises as white parents at the soccer club misapprehend the narrator, falls on the narrator who finds herself 'trying to brownsplain [her] way out of the knot of awkwardness in this conversation' (186). [...]of his abject and embattled racialised masculinity, Deepak's precarity tips over into the perpetration of violence within his marriage. The white status of futurity has meant that minoritised constituencies are often figured as passive recipients rather than active agents in social, cultural and political change either at the macroscale of the nation-state or the microscale of the household. [...]change and mobility for migrant bodies and subjectivities are multidirectional.
ISSN:1325-8338
1325-8338