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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Broken Earth"”.
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From the Master’s Maternity to Redemptive Nurturing: Liberating Motherhood in Toni Morrison’s <em>Beloved</em> and N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy
<p>Science fiction author N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy (2015, 2016, 2017), set in a distant future on an unrecognizable Earth, may seem worlds away from Toni Morrison’s seminal historical novel <em>Beloved</em> (1987), set in 1870s Ohio, but at its core the trilogy furthers an examination …
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Environmental empowerment: Gender, nature, agency, and violence in 21st-century ecofiction
… of Doctor Moreau, and N.K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth trilogy. Where the Crawdads Sing provides insight into the freedom nature grants women to enact violence, while The Daughter of Doctor Moreau examines the relationship between nature and agency, which I contrast with H.G. Wells’ The …
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Speaking Through Sacrifice: Rhetorical and Social Functions of Sacrifice within Long-Form Contemporary Fantasy Literature
… V. Brett’s Demon Cycle; and N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth. The case-studies draw on sociological, cultural, theological, and literary theory to understand the social nature of these acts of sacrifice, and this framework is then applied to the acts playing out in the imagined societies. From …
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(In)humans: Shifting Narratives of Race And Species In Contemporary Fantasy Fiction
In this dissertation I interrogate the ways in which the fantasy genre engages with the topic of race, in particular the ways in which it uses the established genre convention of non-human sentient species to tell stories that both critique and reinforce hegemonic narratives of race. I begin with …