Akin to Kin
Queer Relationalities in Contemporary Family Memoir
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3622667 |
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| Authors | Aimee Carrillo Rowe (California State University, Northridge, California, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 135-148 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00918369.2022.2103877 |
| PMID | 35904880 |
| OpenAlex | W4288694734 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
This essay analyzes how traditional notions of family are "queered" in contemporary memoir. I explore how heterosexual coupling becomes unnatural, undermining its equation with reproduction-and even the predictable forward march of family time becomes circular, haunted by alternate kinship models. I refer to this dynamic as "akin to kin" to consider how these representations both approximate and depart from normative ideas of family. I analyze several contemporary family memoirs to tease out moments in which "family" is imagined otherwise through queer relationalities
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Kinship · Literature · Memoir · Normative · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · Anthropology · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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