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Kinship in the Fiction of N. K. Jemisin
Kinship in the Fiction of N. K. Jemisin
Relations of Power and Resistance
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Kinship in the Fiction of N.K. Jemisin: Relations of Power and Resistance examines the work of N.K. Jemisin through the lens of kinship studies. In a world increasingly suffering the effects of climate change, currently undergoing a sixth mass extinction, and where anti-democratic, racist and misogynistic movements are gaining ground in many societies, there is an urgent need to re-imagine our most intimate relations and the webs of kinship that form our societies, but also connect us to the more-than-human world. The essays in this collection shed new light on the ways in which Jemisin's fiction does such re-imaginative work and explores both the contemporary moment and the potential for a future that is other than our present.
Edited by Berit Astroem, Jenny Bonnevier, Contributions by Jennifer Ash, Berit Astroem, Jenny Bonnevier, Marinette Grimbeek, Megan Lynn Isaac, Emily Lange, Regina Yung Lee, Michael Pitts
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Format: HARDBACK
Pages: 214
Part I Kinship and Agency Chapter 1. Kinship Matters: Bodies and Power in N.K. Jemisin's Inheritance Trilogy Jenny Bonnevier Chapter 2. Narcissist Fathers and Powered Daughters: Examining Narcissism and Gender in N. K. Jemisin's The Obelisk Gate Alexandra Stamson andJennifer Ash Chapter 3. Motherhood in N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth Novels: Resistant, Ruptured, Reconstituted Berit Astroem Chapter 4. In the Break: Formations of Orogene Childhood in N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season Regina Yung Lee Chapter 5. Intimate Instabilities: Reproducing Violence in N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth Trilogy Mark Soderstrom Part II Kinship and Community Chapter 6. The Ideal Community: Reading Orogeny through (Dis)ability Theory in N. K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season Emily Lange and Megan Lynn Isaac Chapter 7. "Like Any Living Thing Under Threat": Kinship as a Radical Political Approach in N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth Trilogy Michael Pitts Chapter 8. Kinetic Energies: Charting Family Relations in NK Jemisin's Broken Earth Trilogy Lisa Swanstrom Chapter 9. Monstrous Kin in N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth Trilogy and Nnedi Okorafor's The Book of Phoenix Marinette Grimbeek
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Author Bio
Berit Astroem is associate professor of English Literature at Umea University, Sweden. Jenny Bonnevier is senior lecturer of English at OErebro University, Sweden.