This book explores formations of oceanic kinship in transnational American literature and culture from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. The chapters in this edited volume examine how kinship as a critical idiom and conceptual lens can help us rethink forms of human and nonhuman belonging in oceanic contexts.
This book explores formations of oceanic kinship in transnational American literature and culture from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. The chapters in this edited volume examine how kinship as a critical idiom and conceptual lens can help us rethink forms of human and nonhuman belonging in oceanic contexts.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Katharina Fackler is Assistant Professor of North American Studies at the University of Bonn. She is the author of Picturing the Poor: Photography and the Politics of Poverty in the 1960s (forthcoming 2025) and co-leads research groups on "The Cultural Politics of Reconciliation" and "Water as Method". Silvia Schultermandl is Professor and Chair of American Studies at the University of Münster. She is the author of Unlinear Matrilineage: Mother-Daughter Conflicts in Asian American Literature (2009) and Ambivalent Transnational Belonging in American Literature (2021) and co-editor of five collections of essays which explore various themes in transnational studies, American literature and culture, as well as family and kinship studies.
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Introduction: Kinship as critical idiom in oceanic studies 1. Mare Mortis: Blackness, ecology, and "kinlessness" in Henry Neville's The Isle of Pines 2. A sailor's kin: Faith, sexuality, and antislavery, 1840-1856 3. "Near the sea": Maritime kinship and oceanic kinship in Stevenson's Treasure Island 4. Taken by the sea wind: Langston Hughes and the currents of Black identity 5. Craig Santos Perez's poetics of multispecies kinship: Challenging militarism and extinction in the Pacific 6. Swim your ground: Towards a black and blue humanities 7. Trans-species and post-human oceanic futures in Witi Ihimaera's The Whale Rider and James Nestor's Deep? 8. Kinship in the abyss: Submerging with The Deep 9. Shipping - An afterword
Introduction: Kinship as critical idiom in oceanic studies 1. Mare Mortis: Blackness, ecology, and "kinlessness" in Henry Neville's The Isle of Pines 2. A sailor's kin: Faith, sexuality, and antislavery, 1840-1856 3. "Near the sea": Maritime kinship and oceanic kinship in Stevenson's Treasure Island 4. Taken by the sea wind: Langston Hughes and the currents of Black identity 5. Craig Santos Perez's poetics of multispecies kinship: Challenging militarism and extinction in the Pacific 6. Swim your ground: Towards a black and blue humanities 7. Trans-species and post-human oceanic futures in Witi Ihimaera's The Whale Rider and James Nestor's Deep? 8. Kinship in the abyss: Submerging with The Deep 9. Shipping - An afterword
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