{"title":"Enslavement, Freedom, and Marronage in N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth Trilogy","authors":"Lisa M. Anderson","doi":"10.1353/afa.2023.a920497","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>This essay argues that N. K. Jemisin’s award-winning <i>Broken Earth</i> science fiction trilogy engages the concepts of freedom, enslavement, and <i>marronage</i> through the stories of her orogene narrators Essun and Nessun. Through the complexity of the trilogy, Jemisin challenges her readers to consider the nature of enslavement and freedom, and the challenges and necessity of radical transformation to create new ways of being.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":44779,"journal":{"name":"AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2024-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2023.a920497","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, AMERICAN","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This essay argues that N. K. Jemisin’s award-winning Broken Earth science fiction trilogy engages the concepts of freedom, enslavement, and marronage through the stories of her orogene narrators Essun and Nessun. Through the complexity of the trilogy, Jemisin challenges her readers to consider the nature of enslavement and freedom, and the challenges and necessity of radical transformation to create new ways of being.
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As the official publication of the Division on Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association, the quarterly journal African American Review promotes a lively exchange among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences who hold diverse perspectives on African American literature and culture. Between 1967 and 1976, the journal appeared under the title Negro American Literature Forum and for the next fifteen years was titled Black American Literature Forum. In 1992, African American Review changed its name for a third time and expanded its mission to include the study of a broader array of cultural formations.