![]() ![]() ![]() However, it also allows us a unique perspective from which to examine the role of the reader and the way that a narrative structure might more immediately impact the individual. Jemisin’s narrative structure provides a model for how we write stories about trauma, both psychological and ecological, which may be even more important in the near future. But the main character’s self-division also reflects her stratified society which is divided by physical traits, usage castes, walled communities, and even between different sentient races. The different parts of her life have become disassociated, existing as different narratives and different characters. While this narrative structure mirrors the state of the earth in the novel, it also literalizes the shattered self of the main character and her society. The story of this disaster and the events that led up to it are likewise presented to the reader in a broken narrative: past and present and point of view are shattered into pieces that the reader only completely reconstructs at the end of the first novel, The Fifth Season. ![]() The Obelisk Gate was released to strong reviews and, like its predecessor in the series, won the Hugo Award for Best Novel. Jemisin and the second volume in the Broken Earth seriesfollowing The Fifth Season, and preceding The Stone Sky. Jemisin’s historic trilogy, the earth literally breaks apart. The Obelisk Gate is a 2016 science fantasy novel by N. ![]() Jemisin’s The Broken Earth trilogy illuminates issues of agency both within the world of the narrative and for the reader. This presentation will argue that the narrative structure of N.K. ![]()
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