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Book SynopsisKinship 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.
Table of ContentsPart 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 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 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
