Marijana Mikić completed her PhD at the Department of English at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. She is coeditor of Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology. Her essays have appeared in JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory, Orbis Litterarum, and Anglia.

• Chapter 1:Introduction.-Chapter 2:Fear, Hope, and Geographies of Slavery in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Edward P. Jones’s The Known World.- Chapter 3:Shame, Guilt, and Separatist Geographies in Toni Morrison’s Home and Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half.- Chapter 4:Anger, Outrage, Race, and Space in Percival Everett’s Erasure and Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s We Cast a Shadow.- Chapter 5: Grief, Grievability, and Environmental Disaster in Sherri L. Smith’s Orleans and N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.

Marijana Mikić completed her PhD at the Department of English at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. She is coeditor of Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology. Her essays have appeared in JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory, Orbis Litterarum, and Anglia.

• Chapter 1:Introduction.-Chapter 2:Fear, Hope, and Geographies of Slavery in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Edward P. Jones’s The Known World.- Chapter 3:Shame, Guilt, and Separatist Geographies in Toni Morrison’s Home and Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half.- Chapter 4:Anger, Outrage, Race, and Space in Percival Everett’s Erasure and Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s We Cast a Shadow.- Chapter 5: Grief, Grievability, and Environmental Disaster in Sherri L. Smith’s Orleans and N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.

Marijana Mikić completed her PhD at the Department of English at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. She is coeditor of Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology. Her essays have appeared in JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory, Orbis Litterarum, and Anglia.

• Chapter 1:Introduction.-Chapter 2:Fear, Hope, and Geographies of Slavery in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Edward P. Jones’s The Known World.- Chapter 3:Shame, Guilt, and Separatist Geographies in Toni Morrison’s Home and Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half.- Chapter 4:Anger, Outrage, Race, and Space in Percival Everett’s Erasure and Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s We Cast a Shadow.- Chapter 5: Grief, Grievability, and Environmental Disaster in Sherri L. Smith’s Orleans and N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.