(U)levelige slægtskaber: En analyse af filmen Rosa Morena
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(U)levelige slægtskaber : En analyse af filmen Rosa Morena. / Petersen, Michael Nebeling; Myong, Lene.
In: K og K, Vol. 2012, No. 113, 2012, p. 119-132.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - (U)levelige slægtskaber
T2 - En analyse af filmen Rosa Morena
AU - Petersen, Michael Nebeling
AU - Myong, Lene
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The Danish movie Rosa Morena (2010) tells an unusual story about kinship in which a white homosexual Danish man adopts a child born to a poor black Brazilian woman. Using a theoretical framework of biopolitics and affective labour the article highlights how the male homosexual figure is being cast as heteronormative and white in order to become intelligible as a parent and the bearer of liveable kinship. The casting rests on the affective and reproductive labour of the Brazilian birth mother who is portrayed as an unsuited parent through a colonial discourse steeped in sexualized and racialized imagery. A specific distribution of affect, where anger turns into gratefulness fixates and relegates the birth mother to a state of living dead, and thus she becomes the bearer of an unliveable kinship. This economy of life and death constructs transnational adoption as a vital event in a Foucauldian sense. In the same instance as the adoption, a white male homosexual population unfolds into life, and it targets a racialized and poor population as if already dead.
AB - The Danish movie Rosa Morena (2010) tells an unusual story about kinship in which a white homosexual Danish man adopts a child born to a poor black Brazilian woman. Using a theoretical framework of biopolitics and affective labour the article highlights how the male homosexual figure is being cast as heteronormative and white in order to become intelligible as a parent and the bearer of liveable kinship. The casting rests on the affective and reproductive labour of the Brazilian birth mother who is portrayed as an unsuited parent through a colonial discourse steeped in sexualized and racialized imagery. A specific distribution of affect, where anger turns into gratefulness fixates and relegates the birth mother to a state of living dead, and thus she becomes the bearer of an unliveable kinship. This economy of life and death constructs transnational adoption as a vital event in a Foucauldian sense. In the same instance as the adoption, a white male homosexual population unfolds into life, and it targets a racialized and poor population as if already dead.
KW - Det Humanistiske Fakultet
KW - transnational adoption
KW - Biopolitik
KW - nekropolitik
KW - Seksualitet
KW - rosa morena
KW - race
KW - queer teori
KW - Slægtskab
KW - homonormativitet
KW - ligestilling
M3 - Tidsskriftartikel
VL - 2012
SP - 119
EP - 132
JO - K & K
JF - K & K
SN - 0905-6998
IS - 113
ER -
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