Affective Chemistries of Care: Slow Activism and the Limits of the Molecular in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous

In this article, I explore care work outlined and performed as emotional and erotic support labor in Ocean Vuong’s novel, On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous (2019). The illnesses around which Vuong stages salient scenes of care work are not those easily addressed by surgery or a course of antibiotic...

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Main Author: Rachel C. Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2022-08-01
Series:Journal of Transnational American Studies
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Online Access:https://journalpub.escholarship.org/jtas/article/id/43127/
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