1st Edition
Kinship as Critical Idiom in Oceanic Studies
Introduction: Kinship as critical idiom in oceanic studies
Katharina Fackler and Silvia Schultermandl
1. Mare Mortis: Blackness, ecology, and “kinlessness” in Henry Neville’s The Isle of Pines
Jeremy Chow
2. A sailor’s kin: Faith, sexuality, and antislavery, 1840–1856
John Saillant
3. “Near the sea”: Maritime kinship and oceanic kinship in Stevenson’s Treasure Island
Alison Maas
4. Taken by the sea wind: Langston Hughes and the currents of Black identity
Joshua M. Murray
5. Craig Santos Perez’s poetics of multispecies kinship: Challenging militarism and extinction in the Pacific
Heidi Amin-Hong
6. Swim your ground: Towards a black and blue humanities
Jonathan Howard
7. Trans-species and post-human oceanic futures in Witi Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider and James Nestor’s Deep?
Ruth Y. Hsu
8. Kinship in the abyss: Submerging with The Deep
Elizabeth DeLoughrey
9. Shipping – An afterword
Hester Blum
Biography
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.
