110555 20220210131419.0 doi 10.1080/0013838X.2020.1798138 sideral 119967 ART-2020-119967 eng Ferrández San Miguel, María Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-4402-0815 Ethics in the Anthropocene: Traumatic Exhaustion and Posthuman Regeneration in N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy 2020 This article focuses on N. K. Jemisin’s triple-Hugo-award-winning epic trilogy Broken Earth (2015–2017), using the strategically powerful perspectives of trauma studies and the discourses around the figure of the posthuman, and paying special attention to issues of ethics and the notion of the Anthropocene. It is contended that the main issues at play in the Broken Earth trilogy are the representation of structural oppression against a marginalised minority and the foregrounding of the possible consequences of extreme exploitation of the environment. The article argues that Jemisin’s work draws a connection between the subjugation and exploitation of certain groups and of nature, framing both as traumatic phenomena. Yet, the story allows for a possibility of regeneration in the promotion of a posthuman form of ethics. In short, as this article attempts to prove, the Broken Earth series considers the past, interprets the present and offers a cautionary tale about a the future that makes a strong case for the hopeful practice of posthuman ethics. Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/FFI2015-63506 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess All rights reserved http://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ 0.227 2020 Literature and Literary Theory 2020 Q1 Linguistics and Language 2020 Q1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion 3004 345 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema. Área Filología Inglesa 101, 4 (2020), 471-486 Engl. stud. (Amst.) English studies (Amsterdam) 0013-838X 201097 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/110555/files/texto_completo.pdf Postprint 385640 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/110555/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Postprint oai:zaguan.unizar.es:110555 articulos driver 2022-02-10-10:18:29 ARTICLE