Kinship as Critical Idiom in Oceanic Studies

Katharina Fackler, Silvia Schultermandl

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English

Routledge
12 February 2025

Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Colonialism & imperialism; Slavery & abolition of slavery; Ethnic studies; Anthropology

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. The book’s notion of kinship encompasses practices of mutual care which emerge from an understanding of interdependence, collectivity, and affiliation.

Taken together, the essays critically engage with a variety of themes and concepts in oceanic studies: postcolonial ecologies, maritime labor histories, slavery and indentured servitude, extractive capitalism, settler colonialism, race and ethnicity, gender, sexuality, the posthuman, the Anthropocene, and decolonial epistemologies. They therefore contribute new perspectives from kinship studies to current conversations in the blue humanities and adjacent fields such as diaspora studies, Black studies, Indigenous studies, ecocriticism, and queer theory. Together, they probe possibilities for an oceanic ethics of care for the twenty-first century. This book will be relevant to students and scholars of oceanic studies, literary studies, cultural studies, and those interested in the intersections of kinship, the environmental humanities, and postcolonial theory.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies.

Edited by: Katharina Fackler, Silvia Schultermandl
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9781032973883
ISBN 10: 1032973889
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 12 February 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.