{"product_id":"9783032081308","title":"Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePalgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eLi, Yawen\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe Melancholy of Kinship in Post-reform China and Postcolonial Literature\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e, brings post-reform Chinese cultural texts into conversation with postcolonial novels from Africa and Asia to examine the shared experiences of kinship loss as a response to historical trauma, state violence, and socioeconomic dispossession.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003eLooking beyond E\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003eurocentric paradigms of kinship shaped by Western liberalism, structural anthropology, and Freudian-informed psychoanalysis,\u003c\/span\u003e this \u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;\"\u003ebook\u003c\/span\u003e argues that \u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003eliterary and cultural spheres of the Global South are reclaiming kinship as a form of political sociality rooted in decolonial traditions, precisely through mourning its loss. Ultimately\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003e, it\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003e draws attention to the ways that narratives from the Global South open up new possibilities for emancipation in a postsocialist and postcolonial world marked by enduring and emerging forms of unfreedom.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2026-02-14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783032081308\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-032-08131-5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 205\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44477555179660,"sku":"9783032081308","price":116.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783032081308.jpg?v=1773311469","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783032081308","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}