Mobilizing Affect and Intellect in Erotic Citizenship: or, The Becoming Lover of Erín Moure’s Citizen Trilogy

Jessica  MacEachern

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Vol. 46 No. 1 (2021): Special Issue: Queer Bodies/Corps Queers

Mobilizing Affect and Intellect in Erotic Citizenship: or, The Becoming Lover of Erín Moure’s Citizen Trilogy

Jessica MacEachern^▸^▾

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Submitted: January 30, 2022
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References

Bates, Stephen. “Africans’ Last Plea Shames Belgium.” The Guardian, 8 Aug. 1999, https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/aug/08/stephenbates.theobserve.
Carr, Angela. The Rose Concordance. Book*Hug, 2009.
Carrière, Marie. “Erin Moure and the Spirit of Intersubjectivity.” Essays on Canadian Writing, vol. 70, 2000, pp. 64-80.
Cixous, Hélène. “The Laugh of the Medusa.” Translated by Keith Cohen and Paula Cohen, Signs, vol. 1, no. 4, 1976, pp. 875-93.
Cook, Méira. “The Missionary Position: A Reading of the Mystic Woman in Lacan’s Seminar XX.” Tessera, vol. 27, 1999, pp. 82-89.
Darias-Beautell, Eva. “The Softness of Theory: A T(r)opological Reading of Lisa Robertson’s Soft Architecture.” Mosaic, vol. 49, no. 4, 2016, pp. 53-70.
Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus. Translated by Brian Massumi, U of Minnesota P, 1987.
Dopp, Jamie. “‘A Field of Potentialities’: Reading Erín Moure.” Essays on Canadian Writing, vol. 67, 1999, pp. 261-87.
Emerson, Lori. “Materiality, Intentionality, and the Computer-Generated Poem: Reading Walter Benn Michaels with Erin Mouré’s Pillage Laud.” ESC: English Studies in Canada, vol. 34, no. 4, 2008, pp. 45-69.
Fitzpatrick, Ryan, and Susan Rudy. “‘These Marked Spaces Lie beneath / the Alphabet’: Readers, Borders, and Citizens in Erín Moure’s Recent Work.” Canadian Literature, vols. 210-11, 2011, pp. 60-74.
Hejinian, Lyn. The Language of Inquiry. U of California P, 2000.
Hoggett, Paul, and Simon Thompson, editors. Politics and Emotions: The Affective Turn in Contemporary Political Studies. Continuum, 2012.
Irigaray, Luce. This Sex Which Is Not One. Translated by Catherine Porter and Carolyn Burke, Cornell UP, 1985.
Kristeva, Julia. Strangers to Ourselves. Translated by Leon S. Roudiez, Columbia UP, 1991.
Liljeström, Marianne. “Affect.” The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory, edited by Lisa Disch and Mary Hawkesworth, Oxford UP, 2016, pp. 16-38.
MacEachern, Jessica. “The Feminist Poet Re-Creates the Soundscape: The Excessive Noise of Lisa Robertson and Rachel Zolf.” Studies in Canadian Literature, vol. 42, no. 2 (2017), pp. 281-98.
Maguire, Shannon. “Erín Moure: Poetry as Planetary Noise.” Planetary Noise: Selected Poetry of Erín Moure, edited by Shannon Maguire, Wesleyan UP, 2017, pp. ix-xxiii.
McDonald, Shirley. “Find Common Ground: Purposeful Disarticulation in the Poetry of Erin Mouré.” English Studies in Canada, vol. 41, nos. 2-3, 2015, pp. 109-31.
Moure, Erín. “Crossings: An Interview with Erín Moure.” Interview by Dawn McCance, Mosaic, vol. 36, no. 4, 2003, pp. 147-61.
Moure, Erín. A Frame of the Book/The Frame of a Book. Anansi, 1999.
Moure, Erín. My Beloved Wager: Essays from a Writing Practice. NeWest, 2009.
Moure, Erín. O Cidadán. Anansi, 2002.
Moure, Erín. “On ‘A Frame of the Book’: A Talk on a Work-in-Progress.” Tessera, vol. 27, 1999, pp. 25-31.
Moure, Erín. Search Procedures. Anansi, 1996.
Moyes, Lianne. “Acts of Citizenship: Erin Mouré’s O Cidadán and the Limits of Worldliness.” Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature, edited by Smaro Kamboureli and Roy Miki, Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2007, pp. 111-28.
“Please Excuse Us Very Much for Daring. . . .” New Internationalist, 5 Oct. 2002, newint.org/features/2002/10/05/excuse.
Reed, Brian M. Nobody’s Business: Twenty-First Century Avant-Garde Poetics. Cornell UP, 2013.
Robertson, Lisa. Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture. Coach House, 2006.
Scott, Gail. Main Brides: Against Ochre Pediment and Aztec Sky. Coach House, 1993.
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. The Weather in Proust. Edited by Jonathan Goldberg, Duke UP, 2011.
Skoulding, Zoë. “Erín Moure’s Irruptive Citizenship.” Contemporary Women’s Poetry and Urban Space: Experimental Cities. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 129-51.
Turim, Maureen. “Desire in Art and Politics: The Theories of Jean-François Lyotard.” Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies, vol. 4, no. 3, 1984, pp. 89-106.
Zolf, Rachel. “‘Like Plugging into an Electric Circuit’: Fingering Out Erín Moure’s LesboDigit-O! Smut Poems.” Canadian Literature, vols. 210-11, 2011, pp. 230-41.

How to Cite

MacEachern, J. . (2022). Mobilizing Affect and Intellect in Erotic Citizenship: or, The Becoming Lover of Erín Moure’s Citizen Trilogy. Studies in Canadian Literature, 46(1), 166–187. Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/32740

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[1] Bates, Stephen. “Africans’ Last Plea Shames Belgium.” The Guardian, 8 Aug. 1999, https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/aug/08/stephenbates.theobserve.

[2] Carr, Angela. The Rose Concordance. Book*Hug, 2009.

[3] Carrière, Marie. “Erin Moure and the Spirit of Intersubjectivity.” Essays on Canadian Writing, vol. 70, 2000, pp. 64-80.

[4] Cixous, Hélène. “The Laugh of the Medusa.” Translated by Keith Cohen and Paula Cohen, Signs, vol. 1, no. 4, 1976, pp. 875-93.

[5] Cook, Méira. “The Missionary Position: A Reading of the Mystic Woman in Lacan’s Seminar XX.” Tessera, vol. 27, 1999, pp. 82-89.

[6] Darias-Beautell, Eva. “The Softness of Theory: A T(r)opological Reading of Lisa Robertson’s Soft Architecture.” Mosaic, vol. 49, no. 4, 2016, pp. 53-70.

[7] Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus. Translated by Brian Massumi, U of Minnesota P, 1987.

[8] Dopp, Jamie. “‘A Field of Potentialities’: Reading Erín Moure.” Essays on Canadian Writing, vol. 67, 1999, pp. 261-87.

[9] Emerson, Lori. “Materiality, Intentionality, and the Computer-Generated Poem: Reading Walter Benn Michaels with Erin Mouré’s Pillage Laud.” ESC: English Studies in Canada, vol. 34, no. 4, 2008, pp. 45-69.

[10] Fitzpatrick, Ryan, and Susan Rudy. “‘These Marked Spaces Lie beneath / the Alphabet’: Readers, Borders, and Citizens in Erín Moure’s Recent Work.” Canadian Literature, vols. 210-11, 2011, pp. 60-74.

[11] Hejinian, Lyn. The Language of Inquiry. U of California P, 2000.

[12] Hoggett, Paul, and Simon Thompson, editors. Politics and Emotions: The Affective Turn in Contemporary Political Studies. Continuum, 2012.

[13] Irigaray, Luce. This Sex Which Is Not One. Translated by Catherine Porter and Carolyn Burke, Cornell UP, 1985.

[14] Kristeva, Julia. Strangers to Ourselves. Translated by Leon S. Roudiez, Columbia UP, 1991.

[15] Liljeström, Marianne. “Affect.” The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory, edited by Lisa Disch and Mary Hawkesworth, Oxford UP, 2016, pp. 16-38.

[16] MacEachern, Jessica. “The Feminist Poet Re-Creates the Soundscape: The Excessive Noise of Lisa Robertson and Rachel Zolf.” Studies in Canadian Literature, vol. 42, no. 2 (2017), pp. 281-98.

[17] Maguire, Shannon. “Erín Moure: Poetry as Planetary Noise.” Planetary Noise: Selected Poetry of Erín Moure, edited by Shannon Maguire, Wesleyan UP, 2017, pp. ix-xxiii.

[18] McDonald, Shirley. “Find Common Ground: Purposeful Disarticulation in the Poetry of Erin Mouré.” English Studies in Canada, vol. 41, nos. 2-3, 2015, pp. 109-31.

[19] Moure, Erín. “Crossings: An Interview with Erín Moure.” Interview by Dawn McCance, Mosaic, vol. 36, no. 4, 2003, pp. 147-61.

[20] Moure, Erín. A Frame of the Book/The Frame of a Book. Anansi, 1999.

[21] Moure, Erín. My Beloved Wager: Essays from a Writing Practice. NeWest, 2009.

[22] Moure, Erín. O Cidadán. Anansi, 2002.

[23] Moure, Erín. “On ‘A Frame of the Book’: A Talk on a Work-in-Progress.” Tessera, vol. 27, 1999, pp. 25-31.

[24] Moure, Erín. Search Procedures. Anansi, 1996.

[25] Moyes, Lianne. “Acts of Citizenship: Erin Mouré’s O Cidadán and the Limits of Worldliness.” Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature, edited by Smaro Kamboureli and Roy Miki, Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2007, pp. 111-28.

[26] “Please Excuse Us Very Much for Daring. . . .” New Internationalist, 5 Oct. 2002, newint.org/features/2002/10/05/excuse.

[27] Reed, Brian M. Nobody’s Business: Twenty-First Century Avant-Garde Poetics. Cornell UP, 2013.

[28] Robertson, Lisa. Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture. Coach House, 2006.

[29] Scott, Gail. Main Brides: Against Ochre Pediment and Aztec Sky. Coach House, 1993.

[30] Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. The Weather in Proust. Edited by Jonathan Goldberg, Duke UP, 2011.

[31] Skoulding, Zoë. “Erín Moure’s Irruptive Citizenship.” Contemporary Women’s Poetry and Urban Space: Experimental Cities. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 129-51.

[32] Turim, Maureen. “Desire in Art and Politics: The Theories of Jean-François Lyotard.” Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies, vol. 4, no. 3, 1984, pp. 89-106.

[33] Zolf, Rachel. “‘Like Plugging into an Electric Circuit’: Fingering Out Erín Moure’s LesboDigit-O! Smut Poems.” Canadian Literature, vols. 210-11, 2011, pp. 230-41.