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My mother’s role in my growing up consisted, in large part, in preparing me for my station in life. She was a redoubtable realist, critical of what she saw as my ‘pretensions’ which seemed to be linked to my love of books. ‘Who do you think you are, Lady Muck?’, she would tell me of an auntie, her sister, who was disliked by their grandfather simply for reading. I would hear in my mother’s tone her anxiety to ‘keep me close’ lest I ‘get above myself’. Such ‘affective … citations’ (Berlant, 2008: 272–273) have a tenacious hold. The intimate surveillance of the self and her desires has always intrigued, perhaps because of the question it supposes of what would happen if you did ‘get above yourself’!
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Hey, V. (2013). Privilege, Agency and Affect in the Academy: Who Do You Think You Are?. In: Privilege, Agency and Affect. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137292636_7
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