Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect - Perverse Modernities Condition:Good Three Day Road is a

Three Day Road is a mesmerizing novel told through the eyes of Niska—a Canadian Oji-Cree woman living off the land who is the last of a line of healers and diviners—and her nephew Xavier

or mathematical fact—and the solution presents itself

becoming indispensable to her

Yet in a compelling introduction

Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect - Perverse Modernities Condition:Good Three Day Road is aIn Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural lives. Toward that end, Chen investigates the blurry division between the living and the dead, or that which is beyond the human or animal. Within the field of linguistics, animacy has been described variously as a quality of agency, awareness, mobility, sentience, or liveness.