Abstract
ABSTRACT 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.
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