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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"jemisin"”.
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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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Archives of facade
… within the fantasy genre. Lastly, authors, N.K. Jemisin, L.L. McKinney and Tomi Adeyemi and their use of these techniques to create fully realized black characters within their fantasy novels will be analyzed.
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Contending With Coloniality Through Speculation, Storytelling, And Sound Performance
… work of Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, N. K. Jemisin, Janelle Monáe, and Rebecca Sugar, I create narrative vignettes that speculate about how marronage and erotic agency, when enacted by colonized peoples, might support the work of decolonizing our thinking, being, and relating in the world. …
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Gathering Futures: Speculative Fiction as a Map for Transforming the Climate Crisis
… Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia E. Butler, N. K. Jemisin, and Jeff VanderMeer. By mapping the way characters adapt to new systems of living, my dissertation pivots to applied scholarship: can humanity implement these ideas and how? As the climate crisis defines this century, another ecocritical …
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Speaking Through Sacrifice: Rhetorical and Social Functions of Sacrifice within Long-Form Contemporary Fantasy Literature
… Files; Peter 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 …