Transnational Bodies in Transit: New Routes for Affective Transpositions in Shani Mootoo's Polar Vortex

This article puts Shani Mootoo's novel Polar Vortex (2020), in conversation wuith the vitalist philosophy of Rosi Braidotti, as illustrated in the study Posthuman Feminism (2022) and Libe García Zarranz "Sustainable Affects" (2020). I look at the centrality of affective relatons in the transformation of queer subjectivity under processes of the growing (un)happiness in the diasporic homeSpace. Shani Mootoo's (non)diasporic cross-border narrative proposes contrastive figurations of the subject through temporal and spatial frameworks. Mootoo's "transposable moves" (García-Zarranz) resist a naïve return to sentimentality or nostalgic love to advocate inatead a turn to sustainable affects.