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Performing feminist empathy in Claire Keegan’s Small Things like These (2021): from affective encounters to (cruel) optimism
Abstract This article dwells on Sarah Ahmed’s notion of “affective relationality” and her suggestion that empathy involves the subject’s reaction to the pain of others and willingness to be affected by it. Such postulates are used to explore Small Things like These (2021), the latest novel by the acclaimed Irish writer Claire Keegan. I contend…