Ethnicity and Kinship in North American and European Literatures

Silvia Schultermandl (Curatore)

Klaus Rieser (Curatore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2021

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.

• Curatore: Silvia Schultermandl, Klaus Rieser
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
• Anno: 2021
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 170 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 180 gr.
• EAN: 9780367655143

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