Kinship in the Fiction of N. K. Jemisin: Relations of Power and Resistance - Hardcover

by Berit Åström (Editor), Jenny Bonnevier (Editor), Jennifer Ash (Contribution by)

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.

Author Biography

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