Imaginative kin-making: deconstructing the family, writing entanglements
Issue 16 of From the European South intends to verify how in stories about struggle and survival in compromised environments and/or conditions of socio-political unrest, the lines of solidarities adopted to face the various crises reflect and advance an idea of kinship that is not necessarily modelled on natal kin and the biological family. The purpose is to spot, in narration, thematic and formal frameworks for understanding how alternative kinship structures and new forms of oddkin can respond to and challenge both social injustices and environmental crises. The hope is that rethinking literature in this way may offer new possibilities for collective ecological responsibility and social justice, urging a movement towards more inclusive, sustainable futures.
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Contents
[pp. i-ii]Introduction: Imaginative kin-making: deconstructing the family, writing entanglements
ROSSELLA CIOCCA AND MARTA CARIELLO[pp. 1-8]“A little less than kin, and more than kind”: kinship and motherhood in Shakespeare’s Henry V
FRANCESCA GUIDOTTI[pp. 9-21]Oddkin and alter-families. ‘Staying with the trouble’ in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
ROSSELLA CIOCCA[pp. 22-36]On Kinship and Belonging: narrating and surviving in Zeyn Joukhadar’s The Thirty Names of Night
MARTA CARIELLO[pp. 37-49]Caring in the ‘Thick Present’: environmental crisis, ethics of interconnectedness and posthuman ecologies in The Overstory by Richard Powers
GIUSEPPE DE RISO[pp. 50-62]Care and Liberation in the Black Anthropocenes: apocalypse, justice and family abolition in N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy and Cherie Dimaline’s Marrow Thieves series
LUCIO DE CAPITANI[pp. 63-77]Extended kinship as a means of survivance within Indigenous literary futurism in “Legends are made, not born” by Métis author Cherie Dimaline
ALICE SALION[pp. 78-90]New technologies of re/production and a world beyond the family: Tlotlo Tsamaase’s Womb City
ARIANNA PREITE AND CHIARA XAUSA[pp. 91-110]Il pensiero eco-femminista di Haraway in scena. Intervista all’artista Marta Cuscunà
ROSSELLA MENNA AND MARTA CUSCUNÀ[pp. 111-116]
Reviews
Reworking identity on stage: a review of Fabulazione, o la rieducazione di Undine
FEDERICA PIRON[pp. 118-122]
Riprendersi la vita. Uno sguardo etnografico sui processi sociali che danno forma e caratterizzano le occupazioni abitative
ENRICO FRAVEGA[pp. 123-128]