Vol. 16 No. 1 (2025): Summer 2025
Book Review

The Power of Language, Naming, and Metaphors in Affecting Thoughts and Behaviours: Identity Politics at Work in N.K.Jemisin’s The Fifth Season

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  • Kelsey Santiago
Kelsey Santiago
Mount Royal University

Published 2025-08-20

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Santiago, K. (2025). The Power of Language, Naming, and Metaphors in Affecting Thoughts and Behaviours: Identity Politics at Work in N.K.Jemisin’s The Fifth Season. Journal of Integrated Studies, 16(1). Retrieved from https://jis.athabascau.ca/index.php/jis/article/view/337
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Abstract

A philosophically critical review of "The Fifth Season," a fictional work by N.K. Jemisin. In this piece I discuss the power of language and naming in creating and maintaining social structure and the dissemination of power within. I use the clear metaphors for racial and sexist discrimination in today's society with the fictional society in this piece as supporting arguments for my thesis.
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