Possibilities of “Moments of Ordinariness” in Mobility in Dionne Brand’s Love Enough = Possibilities of “Moments of Ordinariness” in Mobility in Dionne Brand’s Love Enough

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Dionne Brand’s Love Enough ponders the positionality of alienated characters in the cosmopolitan city of Toronto. Brand particularly depicts her characters in their mobile status, which is peculiar as they are restlessly moving, either physically or psychologically, while being stuck at the same time. The scholars including Sara Ahmed point out that the mobility does not always entail the positive value due to the certain circumstances that drive people into mobility. For Brand’s characters, the central cause for their static-mobility, notwithstanding the various roots of the cause, lies in their troubled body schema. This paper therefore first explores the different forms of static-mobile state of main characters in Love Enough in order to argue that Brand attempts to find the possibility for the alienated characters to negotiate their position in the city space of Toronto in the “moments of ordinariness” within the endless movement. In this brief moments, which are short but influential, the characters in Love Enough become able to reestablish their relation to the world and the people they encounter by re-viewing the same space and situation in their own perspective.