The Flâneuserie of "In Treatment"’s Laila Green: Waywardness, Willfulness, and the Blackqueer Art of Failure

Dorottya Mozes

doi:10.18172/jes.5895

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Dorottya Mozes University of Debrecen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1620-9197

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.5895

Palabras clave:

flâneuserie, rebeldía, obstinación, queer art of failure, geografías negras, ecologías negras

Resumen

El autocomplaciente deambular urbano del flâneur parisino se conforma como figura masculina, blanca, privilegiada y heterosexual. Por contraste, este ensayo explora el concepto de Blackqueer flâneuse, enfatizando el papel radical de la imaginación para moverse por espacios fuertemente vigilados y controlados. Uniendo teorías entrecruzadas sobre rebeldía (Hartman) y obstinación (Ahmed), examino el deambular femenino y negro, Black flâneuserie, como una forma de movilidad a la vez imaginativa y tangible que ingeniosamente elude o trastoca la violencia de diferentes políticas de confinamiento y cautividad. Centrándonos en el personaje de Laila Green de la serie En Terapia (2021), este artículo muestra su imaginación proscrita, su anhelo de liberación y sus prácticas deambulantes cotidianas como expresiones alternativas de flâneuserie. A través del concepto de queer failure (Halberstam), mi análisis identifica como una práctica de flâneuserie los persistentes intentos de escapar por parte de Laila, así como su historial de superación de contratiempos. Con la ayuda de la geografía crítica (de Certeau, Tuan, Cosgrove, Cosgrove y Dora) y de la teoría de Carl Jung, se conceptualiza la pasión de Laila por lugares elevados y montañas, elementos que materializan una pasión que evidencia su individualización. De forma similar a las paradojas del flânerie masculino y blanco, en el caso de Laila Green, Black flâneuserie se nos presenta como un viaje paradójico de descubrimiento personal, que se complica por su situación privilegiada y por los enredos de vagabundear dentro de la lógica del capitalismo racial.

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