Kinship in the Fiction of N. K. Jemisin

Relations of Power and Resistance
Herausgeber: Åström, Berit; Bonnevier, Jenny

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 505g
• ISBN-13: 9781666910452
• ISBN-10: 1666910457
• Artikelnr.: 66354650

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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