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