sprinkle: an undergraduate journal of feminist and queer studies
Article Title
The Place for Theory: Reproductive Justice Discourse in N. K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season
Abstract
In this paper, I demonstrate how N.K. Jemisin, popular science fiction and fantasy author and winner of three Hugo Awards, is in conversation with Reproductive Justice theory in her novel The Fifth Season. I argue that N.K. Jemisin has resisted the hegemonic academic language and rhetoric by creating expansive theory and critique through her many works of speculative fiction and further demonstrate how Jemisin’s approach using literature as her means of production is crucial to her unique way of theorizing.Centrally, through close textual analysis, I argue that through The Fifth Season Jemisin is in conversation with other theorists, such as Loretta J. Ross and Barbara Christian, grappling with the burdens of reproductive injustice for Black women in the United States.
Publication Date
5-31-2019
Recommended Citation
Graham, Devon
(2019)
"The Place for Theory: Reproductive Justice Discourse in N. K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season,"
sprinkle: an undergraduate journal of feminist and queer studies: Vol. 12, Article 6.
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https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/sprinkle/vol12/iss1/6
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