TY - JOUR AU - Hernández González, Sheila PY - 2024 SN - 2254-1179 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10366/166086 AB - [EN] This article presents an intersectional reading of Hiromi Goto's The Kappa Child (2001) through the lens of Affect Theory. Particularly, I draw from Sara Ahmed's The Promise of Happiness and Lauren Berlant's Cruel Optimism to analyze the role... PB - Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca (España) KW - Affect Theory KW - Hiromi Goto KW - Promise of Happiness KW - cruel optimism KW - Trauma KW - The Kappa Child KW - Monstrosity TI - "A child isn't born bitter": (In)human Relations and Monstrous Affects in Hiromi Goto's The Kappa Child DO - 10.14201/candb.v13i51-67 T2 - Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies ER -