Ethnicity And Kinship In North American And European Literatures (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Literature)
Routledge
ISBN13:
9780367741006
$65.45
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.
- | Author: Silvia Schultermandl, Klaus Rieser-Wohlfarter
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: May 31, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 170 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0367741008
- | ISBN-13: 9780367741006
- Author:
- Silvia Schultermandl, Klaus Rieser-Wohlfarter
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication Date:
- May 31, 2023
- Number of pages:
- 170 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0367741008
- ISBN-13:
- 9780367741006