Queer Kinship

Teagan Bradway is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York, Cortland, and author of Queer Experimental Literature: The Affective Politics of Bad Reading.Elizabeth Freeman is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, and author of Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century, and other books also published by Duke University Press.

• Acknowledgments  viiIntroduction: Kincoherence/Kin-aesthetics/Kinematics / Tyler Bradway and Elizabeth Freeman  1Queering Linages1. Kinship beyond the Bloodline / Judith Butler  252. The Mixed-Race Child Is Queer Father to the Man / Brigitte Fielder  483. World Making: Family, Time, and Memory among Trans Mothers and Daughters in Istanbul / Dilara Çalişkan  71Kinship, State, Empire4. In Good Relations: Native Adoption, Kinstillations, and the Grounding of Memory / Joseph M. Pierce  955. Queering the Womb: Surrogacy and the Economics of Reproductive Feeling / Poulomi Saha  1196. Beyond Family: Kinship’s Past, Queer World Making, and the Question of Governance / Mark Rifkin  1387. Ecstatic Kinship and Trans Interiority in Jackie Kay’s Trumpet / Aqdas Aftab  1598. Marielle, Presente: The Present and Presence in Marielle Franco Protests / Juliana DeMartini Brito  180Kinship in the Negative9. Akinship / Christopher Chamberlin  20310. Against Friendship / Leah Claire Allen and John S. Garrison  22711. Kidless Lit: Childlessness and Minor Kinship Forms / Natasha Hurley  24812. Till Death Do Us Kin: Sworn Kinship and Queer Martydom in Chinese Anti-imperial Struggles / Aobo Dong  269Epilogue. How Did It Come to This? Talking Kinship with Kath Weston / Kath Weston, Elizabeth Freeman, and Tyler Bradway  291References  303Contributors  333Index  339

"The book is primarily an important creative and analytic contribution to contemporary queer, trans, critical race and kinship theory. Nevertheless, it is also of value for those who explore narratives and form as well as belonging and heritage 'beyond' kinship relations. As Weston illuminates, when exploring kinship, it can, if we are open to it, take us on unexpected routes." - Rebecka Rehnström (Anthropology Book Forum) "Queer Kinship constitutes a remarkable achievement. Highly readable,theoretically rigorous and exemplary in its commitment to decentring colonial epistemologies, this collection stands to make a seminal contribution to queer and kinship studies. . . . Queer Kinship elicits that most elusive of sensations in the reader: excitement." - Ry Montgomery (LSE Review of Books) "With its ambitious, international scope, Queer Kinship is an informative resource for anyone researching the political issues revolving around nonheteronormative kinships in different cultural contexts. Its unbiased treatment of sensitive issues guides us to think clearly about the reinvention of kinships in this century and how heteronormativity influences our lives still. Queer Kinship is a read that is engaging because of its honesty and introspective take on issues that impact queer and minoritized communities today." - Xin Ying Lim (Journal of Gender Studies)