Asset Details
Do you wish to reserve the book?
Beyond “Obligatory Camaraderie”: Girls' Friendship in Zadie Smith's NW and Jillian and Mariko Tamaki's Skim
Hey, we have placed the reservation for you!
By the way, why not check out events that you can attend while you pick your title.
Oops! Something went wrong.
Looks like we were not able to place the reservation. Kindly try again later.
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
Beyond “Obligatory Camaraderie”: Girls' Friendship in Zadie Smith's NW and Jillian and Mariko Tamaki's Skim
Do you wish to request the book?
Beyond “Obligatory Camaraderie”: Girls' Friendship in Zadie Smith's NW and Jillian and Mariko Tamaki's Skim
Please be aware that the book you have requested cannot be checked out. If you would like to checkout this book, you can reserve another copy
We have requested the book for you!
Your request is successful and it will be processed during the Library working hours. Please check the status of your request in My Requests.
Oops! Something went wrong.
Looks like we were not able to place your request. Kindly try again later.
Journal Article
Beyond “Obligatory Camaraderie”: Girls' Friendship in Zadie Smith's NW and Jillian and Mariko Tamaki's Skim
2016
Overview
While feminisms have aimed to disengage women’s dependence on dyadic enmeshment with men, few have attended to the idea that friendship among women can also be unreasonably greedy.
This article suggests Zadie Smith’s NW and Mariko and Jillian Tamaki’s Skim are good novels through which to ask if women’s friendship can accommodate more autonomy, and what that
might look like. Foucault’s concept of “obligatory camaraderie” is helpful here for understanding taken for granted gendering in friendship occurring in both mainstream gender
socialization and particular feminist communities. Obligatory camaraderie makes legible, in the case of women and girls, loyal subjugation of reason for the cause of friendship, or
a lack of pleasure and investment in one’s own discernment. These novels ask girls and women to not invest quite so much in friendship as salvation, eschewing an ethics of
obligation for one of consent. Absent outsized demands, and disappointments, the authors appear to suggest, we may come to like ourselves, and our friends, a little bit more.
