Making Kin: Master Class with Debra Marquart

Soul Bone Lit Fest & MIU's MFA in Creative Writing

This Master Class with Debra Marquart is part of MIU's MFA in Creative Writing Residency.

This morning we have another master class with Debra Marquart. She will talk about &quot;Making Kin&quot; in relation to writing. Making Kin is a book by Donna Haraway, an ecofeminist scholar. You can read an interview with her <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/making-kin-an-interview-with-donna-haraway/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.How do you write about nature by embodying it, by entering into the skin of &quot;critters&quot; and beings that in our modern world far too often are cast off as &quot;inanimate&quot; and not sentient? How do you imbue the universe of your stories with animate life, attributing consciousness? From the interview article: &quot;More recently, Haraway has waded into the lively debates surrounding the Anthropocene, which she considers “both too big and too small” a concept to explain the perilous state of our planet. She has coined not one, but two words to describe this historical epoch: the “Chthulucene” breaks down the hierarchy between the human and nonhuman worlds, while the “Plantationocene” connects the climate crisis to specific economic and political practices of exploitation.&quot; Marquart explores the impact of Haraway&#x27;s work on eco writing. Haraway talks about &quot;tentacular thinking&quot;: &quot;Tentacular thinking suggests the breaking of the binary through bodily practices and networks composed by trajectories, patternings and lines. The tentacular tangles the string(s) to collectively think and make kin with unknowns in storytellings that have been told and yet to come.&quot; This is the subject of this master class.

Making Kin: Master Class with Debra Marquart

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