期刊名称：Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies
印刷版ISSN：1832-3898
电子版ISSN：1838-8310
出版年度：2014
卷号：10
期号：2
出版社：Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association (ACRAWSA)
摘要：This paper explores 'the politics of good feeling' with specific reference to debates about multiculturalism and immigration. The paper considers how certain bodies are seen as the origin of bad feeling, as getting in the way of public happiness, exploring the negative affective value of the figures of the feminist kill - joy, unhappy queer and melancholic migrant. Drawing on a reading of the film Bend it Like Beckham, the paper explores how the would - be citizen who embraces the national game is rewarded with happiness. The migrant who refuses to integrate becomes an unhappy object for the nation, as the cause of un happiness, terror and insecurity. The film participates in a wider discourse that reads public speech about racism as melancholic, as the refu sal to let go of suffering. The paper explores how this conversi on between unhappy racism and multicult ural happin ess takes place, and in so doing, offers a c ritique of what we would call ' the affirmative turn'
