Kinship in the Fiction of N. K. Jemisin

Relations of Power and Resistance

Berit Åström, Jenny Bonnevier (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

214 Seiten

2023
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781666910452 (ISBN)

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This edited collection examines the central role that webs of kinship and families play in the fiction of N.K. Jemisin, arguing that they ca function as centers of resistance, means of oppression, or both. In doing so, Jemisin’s work challenges readers to re-imagine the intimate relations of their present.

Kinship in the Fiction of N.K. Jemisin: Relations of Power and Resistance examines the work of N.K. Jemisin through the lens of critical kinship studies. In a world increasingly suffering the effects of climate change, currently undergoing a sixth mass extinction, and where anti-democratic, racist, and misogynist 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.

Berit Åström is associate professor of English Literature at Umeå University, Sweden. Jenny Bonnevier is senior lecturer of English at Örebro University, Sweden.

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 and Jennifer Ash
Chapter 3. Motherhood in N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Novels: Resistant, Ruptured, Reconstituted
Berit Åström
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

Erscheinungsdatum	18.01.2023
Co-Autor	Jennifer Ash, Berit Åström, Jenny Bonnevier
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 232 mm
Gewicht	508 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781666910452 / 9781666910452
Zustand	Neuware