This chapter considers how Sherri L. Smith’s Orleans (2013) and N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth series (2015–2017) speculate about the consequences and possibilities of Black female grief in the context of multiple and enduring crises, including the challenges presented by climate change. The eco-Afrofuturist storyworlds expose how overlapping forces of racial, gendered, spatial, and environmental oppression produce grief in Black women, while also foregrounding the radical potential of grief and communal grieving as catalysts for contesting ecosocial injustice. Reading these texts through an emotion-race-space framework, on the one hand, offers reflections on grief as bound up with environmental injustice, which is itself a form of racial-spatial violence. On the other hand, it provides a means for rethinking emotions, geographies, and ecologies in the context of oppression as far more than the sum of adverse experiences.

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Grief, Grievability, and Environmental Disaster in Sherri L. Smith’s Orleans and N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy

  • Marijana Mikić

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This chapter considers how Sherri L. Smith’s Orleans (2013) and N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth series (2015–2017) speculate about the consequences and possibilities of Black female grief in the context of multiple and enduring crises, including the challenges presented by climate change. The eco-Afrofuturist storyworlds expose how overlapping forces of racial, gendered, spatial, and environmental oppression produce grief in Black women, while also foregrounding the radical potential of grief and communal grieving as catalysts for contesting ecosocial injustice. Reading these texts through an emotion-race-space framework, on the one hand, offers reflections on grief as bound up with environmental injustice, which is itself a form of racial-spatial violence. On the other hand, it provides a means for rethinking emotions, geographies, and ecologies in the context of oppression as far more than the sum of adverse experiences.