Ethnicity and Kinship in North American and European Literatures (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Schultermandl, Silvia; Rieser, Klaus

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Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection applies kinship as an analytical concept to better understand the affective economies, discursive practices, and aesthetic dimensions through which cultural narratives of belonging establish a sense of intimacy and affiliation. In North American and European ethnic literatures, kinship has several social functions: negotiating diasporic belonging in and outside of the perimeters of bloodlines and genealogy; positioning queer-feminist interventions to counter ethno-nationalist narratives of belonging; challenging liberal sentimentalist narratives, such as those grafted onto the bodies of transnational adoptees; re-formulating cultural heterogeneity through interracial and interethnic kinship constellations outside either post-racial assumptions about colorblindness or celebrations of racial and ethnic pluralism. In all of these cases, kinship features as a common theme through which contemporary authors attend to challenges of conscribing individuals into inclusive, counter-hegemonic cultural narratives of belonging.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000362961
• Artikelnr.: 61161505

Autorenporträt

Silvia Schultermandl is Professor and Chair of American Studies at the University of Münster. She is the author of Ambivalent Transnational Belongings in American Literature and the series co-editor of Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference. Klaus Rieser is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Graz. His publications have dealt with topics such as masculinities in film, iconic figures, and contact spaces. He is co-founder and co-editor of JAAAS-Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, which launched in 2020.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Theorizing Kinship and Ethnicity in Contemporary North
American and European Literature
Silvia Schultermandl und Klaus Rieser
Familiar/Familial Kinship
1. From Familiar to Familial: Gloria Anzaldúa's Queer Rhetorical Kinship
Daniel Valella
2. From China to Cuba, and Back: The Conundrums of Ethnic Identity and
Kinship in Cristina García's Monkey Hunting John Wharton Lowe
3. In Praise of the Kitchen Poet: Cooking as Kinship in Ethnic Culinary
Memoirs
Corinne Bigot
Kinship States
4. Beyond Kinship and National Identity: Ika Hügel-Marshall's Daheim
Unterwegs: Ein Deutsches Leben Anne Potjans
5. Care, Intimacy, and Kinship: Rethinking Traditional Narratives of the
Family in Adrian Tomine's "A Brief History of the Art Form Known as
'Hortisculpture'"
Stella Oh
6. Narratives of Intimacy: Ethnic Nationalism, Kinship, and Sexuality in
Contemporary Bosnian-Herzegovinian Literature
Dijana Simi¿
7. Paper Families and Absent Motherhood in Fae Myenne Ng's Steer Toward
Rock
Burcu Basaran
Loss as Kinship
8. "In between names and grass and murmuring": Queer Diasporic Mourning
and Kinship in Dionne Brand's In Another Place, Not Here Gigi Adair
9. Kinship Patterns and Practices in Joseph Boyden's The Orenda and the
Limits of Reconciliation in Canada
Mathilde Roza
10. Kinship Between Transracial Adoptees: A Case for the Kinship of Loss
Shannon Gibney