This edited collection applies kinship as an analytical concept to better understand the affective economies, discursive practices, and aesthetic dimensions through which cultural narratives of belonging establish a sense of intimacy and affiliation.

Introduction: Theorizing Kinship and Ethnicity in Contemporary North American and European Literature Silvia Schultermandl und Klaus RieserFamiliar/Familial Kinship From Familiar to Familial: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Queer Rhetorical Kinship Daniel Valella From China to Cuba, and Back: The Conundrums of Ethnic Identity and Kinship in Cristina García’s Monkey Hunting John Wharton Lowe In Praise of the Kitchen Poet: Cooking as Kinship in Ethnic Culinary Memoirs Corinne Bigot Kinship States Beyond Kinship and National Identity: Ika Hügel-Marshall’s Daheim Unterwegs: Ein Deutsches Leben Anne Potjans Care, Intimacy, and Kinship: Rethinking Traditional Narratives of the Family in Adrian Tomine’s "A Brief History of the Art Form Known as ‘Hortisculpture’" Stella Oh Narratives of Intimacy: Ethnic Nationalism, Kinship, and Sexuality in Contemporary Bosnian-Herzegovinian Literature Dijana Simić Paper Families and Absent Motherhood in Fae Myenne Ng’s Steer Toward Rock Burcu Basaran Loss as Kinship "In between names and grass and murmuring": Queer Diasporic Mourning and Kinship in Dionne Brand’s In Another Place, Not Here Gigi Adair Kinship Patterns and Practices in Joseph Boyden’s The Orenda and the Limits of Reconciliation in Canada Mathilde Roza Kinship Between Transracial Adoptees: A Case for the Kinship of Loss Shannon Gibney