Experimental Subjectivities in Global Black Women's Writing
Race and Narrative Innovation
Herausgeber: George, Sheldon; Gustar, Jennifer; Wyatt, Jean; Mulvey-Roberts, Marie
Experimental Subjectivities in Global Black Women's Writing
Race and Narrative Innovation
Herausgeber: George, Sheldon; Gustar, Jennifer; Wyatt, Jean; Mulvey-Roberts, Marie
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"In what innovative ways do novels by diasporic Black women writers experiment with the representation of Black subjectivity? This collection explores the inventiveness of contemporary Black women writers - Black British, African, Caribbean, African American - who remake traditional understandings of blackness"--
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"In what innovative ways do novels by diasporic Black women writers experiment with the representation of Black subjectivity? This collection explores the inventiveness of contemporary Black women writers - Black British, African, Caribbean, African American - who remake traditional understandings of blackness"--
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- Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
- Seitenzahl: 280
- Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2024
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
- Gewicht: 454g
- ISBN-13: 9781350383470
- ISBN-10: 1350383473
- Artikelnr.: 69672510
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
- Seitenzahl: 280
- Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2024
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
- Gewicht: 454g
- ISBN-13: 9781350383470
- ISBN-10: 1350383473
- Artikelnr.: 69672510
Jean Wyatt is Professor Emeritus of English at Occidental College, USA. Her previous publications include Love and Narrative Form in Toni Morrison's Later Novels (2017) and, with Sheldon George, she edited Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers (2020). Her articles include: "Freud, Laplanche, Leonardo: Sustaining Enigma" American Imago (2019); "Reinventing the Gothic in Helen Oyeyemi's 'White is for Witching': Maternal Ethics and Racial Politics," in Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers; "Dislocating the Reader: Slave Motherhood and the Disrupted Temporality of Trauma in Toni Morrison's Beloved," in The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis (ed.Vera Camden, 2022); and "Mirror Mirror: The Visual Economy of Race in Helen Oyeyemi's Boy, Snow, Bird," and "Alter Egos in Nella Larsen's Passing and Helen Oyeyemi's Boy, Snow, Bird: Race and Dissociation" for Angelaki. Sheldon George is Professor and Chair of Literature & Writing at Simmons University, USA. He is author of Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity (2016), coeditor, with Derek Hook, of Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity and Psychoanalytic Theory (2021), and coeditor, with Jean Wyatt, of Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers: Race, Ethics, Narrative Form (2020).
Introduction: Experimentation and Subjectivity in Black Diasporic Women's Novels Jean Wyatt
Occidental College
and Sheldon George
Simmons University Section I: Contemporary African American Women Writers 1. "Would it be all right to go ahead and feel?": Constructing Black Women's Interiorities in Toni Morrison's Beloved
Angelyn Mitchell
Associate Professor
Georgetown University
USA 2. Writing (against) Abjection in Jesmyn Ward's Sing
Unburied
Sing (2017)
Claudine Raynaud
Professor Emerita
Université Paul-Valéry
France 3. Reproductive Exploitation and Maternal Subjectivity in Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild"
Naomi Morgenstern
Professor of English and American Literature
University Of Toronto
Canada 4. "'Are you now so deluded you think you exist outside the category of everything?': Black Motherhood beyond Cisgenderism in Rivers Solomon's An Unkindness of Ghosts"
Milo Obourn
Associate Professor
College At Brockport
State University Of New York
USA 5. Narration and Desire in Toni Morrison's Paradise and Home
Sheldon George
Professor of English
Simmons University
USA Section II: Contemporary African Women Writers 6. essai aí não sou eu' / 'this one here is not me' - losing oneself and finding one's sisters. Alienation and sorority in Paulina Chiziane's Niketche
Dorothe¿e Boulanger
Junior Research Fellow in Modern Languages
Jesus College
University Of Oxford
UK 7. Zimbabwean Decolonization
Unhu and Education in Tsitsi Dangarembga's The Book of Not
Brendon Nicholls
Associate Professor of Postcolonial African Studies
University Of Leeds
UK 8. Subjectivity "at the border" in Akwaeke Emezi and Toni Morrison
Pelagia Goulimari
Research Fellow
University Of Oxford
UK Section III: Contemporary Caribbean Women Writers 9. Bodies and belongings beyond the colonial imagination Alison Donnell
Professor in Modern Languages
University of East Anglia
UK 10. Intransitive subjectivities
Intransitive fiction: the question of modes
form and pattern in Alecia McKenzie's Sweetheart
Andrée-Anne Kekeh-Dika
Associate Professor
Université Paris 8
France 11. "Speculating on a Past/Future Self: Tan-Tan in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber" Rhonda Frederick
Associate Professor of English And African & African Diaspora Studies
Boston College
USA 12. Authoring the Self: textual strategies for self-making in Jamaica Kincaid
Dionne Brand and Diana Evans
Denise Decaires Narain
Reader in Postcolonial Literatures
University of Sussex
UK Section IV: Contemporary Black British Women Writers 13. Welcoming Familiars in Bernardine Evaristo's Fiction
Jennifer Gustar
Associat Professor
University of British Columbia Okanagan
Canada 14. 'An unexpected turn': Coincidence and responsibility in Aminatta Forna's Happiness Helen Cousins
Reader in Postcolonial Literature
Newman University
UK 15. "There are things you don't need to be told. You suckle them at your mother's teat": Dynamic Subjectivity
Breastfeeding
and Storycrafting in The First Woman (2021) by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Jenni Ramone
Associate Professor
Nottingham Trent University
UK 16. Black British Women Writers' Historical Fiction Dierdre Osborne
Reader in English Literature and Drama
Goldsmiths
UK 17. Bicultural Twins: Yoruba and British Tales of Twins in Diana Evans's 26a Jean Wyatt
Professor Emerita
Occidental College
USA Bibliography Index
Occidental College
and Sheldon George
Simmons University Section I: Contemporary African American Women Writers 1. "Would it be all right to go ahead and feel?": Constructing Black Women's Interiorities in Toni Morrison's Beloved
Angelyn Mitchell
Associate Professor
Georgetown University
USA 2. Writing (against) Abjection in Jesmyn Ward's Sing
Unburied
Sing (2017)
Claudine Raynaud
Professor Emerita
Université Paul-Valéry
France 3. Reproductive Exploitation and Maternal Subjectivity in Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild"
Naomi Morgenstern
Professor of English and American Literature
University Of Toronto
Canada 4. "'Are you now so deluded you think you exist outside the category of everything?': Black Motherhood beyond Cisgenderism in Rivers Solomon's An Unkindness of Ghosts"
Milo Obourn
Associate Professor
College At Brockport
State University Of New York
USA 5. Narration and Desire in Toni Morrison's Paradise and Home
Sheldon George
Professor of English
Simmons University
USA Section II: Contemporary African Women Writers 6. essai aí não sou eu' / 'this one here is not me' - losing oneself and finding one's sisters. Alienation and sorority in Paulina Chiziane's Niketche
Dorothe¿e Boulanger
Junior Research Fellow in Modern Languages
Jesus College
University Of Oxford
UK 7. Zimbabwean Decolonization
Unhu and Education in Tsitsi Dangarembga's The Book of Not
Brendon Nicholls
Associate Professor of Postcolonial African Studies
University Of Leeds
UK 8. Subjectivity "at the border" in Akwaeke Emezi and Toni Morrison
Pelagia Goulimari
Research Fellow
University Of Oxford
UK Section III: Contemporary Caribbean Women Writers 9. Bodies and belongings beyond the colonial imagination Alison Donnell
Professor in Modern Languages
University of East Anglia
UK 10. Intransitive subjectivities
Intransitive fiction: the question of modes
form and pattern in Alecia McKenzie's Sweetheart
Andrée-Anne Kekeh-Dika
Associate Professor
Université Paris 8
France 11. "Speculating on a Past/Future Self: Tan-Tan in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber" Rhonda Frederick
Associate Professor of English And African & African Diaspora Studies
Boston College
USA 12. Authoring the Self: textual strategies for self-making in Jamaica Kincaid
Dionne Brand and Diana Evans
Denise Decaires Narain
Reader in Postcolonial Literatures
University of Sussex
UK Section IV: Contemporary Black British Women Writers 13. Welcoming Familiars in Bernardine Evaristo's Fiction
Jennifer Gustar
Associat Professor
University of British Columbia Okanagan
Canada 14. 'An unexpected turn': Coincidence and responsibility in Aminatta Forna's Happiness Helen Cousins
Reader in Postcolonial Literature
Newman University
UK 15. "There are things you don't need to be told. You suckle them at your mother's teat": Dynamic Subjectivity
Breastfeeding
and Storycrafting in The First Woman (2021) by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Jenni Ramone
Associate Professor
Nottingham Trent University
UK 16. Black British Women Writers' Historical Fiction Dierdre Osborne
Reader in English Literature and Drama
Goldsmiths
UK 17. Bicultural Twins: Yoruba and British Tales of Twins in Diana Evans's 26a Jean Wyatt
Professor Emerita
Occidental College
USA Bibliography Index
Introduction: Experimentation and Subjectivity in Black Diasporic Women's Novels Jean Wyatt
Occidental College
and Sheldon George
Simmons University Section I: Contemporary African American Women Writers 1. "Would it be all right to go ahead and feel?": Constructing Black Women's Interiorities in Toni Morrison's Beloved
Angelyn Mitchell
Associate Professor
Georgetown University
USA 2. Writing (against) Abjection in Jesmyn Ward's Sing
Unburied
Sing (2017)
Claudine Raynaud
Professor Emerita
Université Paul-Valéry
France 3. Reproductive Exploitation and Maternal Subjectivity in Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild"
Naomi Morgenstern
Professor of English and American Literature
University Of Toronto
Canada 4. "'Are you now so deluded you think you exist outside the category of everything?': Black Motherhood beyond Cisgenderism in Rivers Solomon's An Unkindness of Ghosts"
Milo Obourn
Associate Professor
College At Brockport
State University Of New York
USA 5. Narration and Desire in Toni Morrison's Paradise and Home
Sheldon George
Professor of English
Simmons University
USA Section II: Contemporary African Women Writers 6. essai aí não sou eu' / 'this one here is not me' - losing oneself and finding one's sisters. Alienation and sorority in Paulina Chiziane's Niketche
Dorothe¿e Boulanger
Junior Research Fellow in Modern Languages
Jesus College
University Of Oxford
UK 7. Zimbabwean Decolonization
Unhu and Education in Tsitsi Dangarembga's The Book of Not
Brendon Nicholls
Associate Professor of Postcolonial African Studies
University Of Leeds
UK 8. Subjectivity "at the border" in Akwaeke Emezi and Toni Morrison
Pelagia Goulimari
Research Fellow
University Of Oxford
UK Section III: Contemporary Caribbean Women Writers 9. Bodies and belongings beyond the colonial imagination Alison Donnell
Professor in Modern Languages
University of East Anglia
UK 10. Intransitive subjectivities
Intransitive fiction: the question of modes
form and pattern in Alecia McKenzie's Sweetheart
Andrée-Anne Kekeh-Dika
Associate Professor
Université Paris 8
France 11. "Speculating on a Past/Future Self: Tan-Tan in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber" Rhonda Frederick
Associate Professor of English And African & African Diaspora Studies
Boston College
USA 12. Authoring the Self: textual strategies for self-making in Jamaica Kincaid
Dionne Brand and Diana Evans
Denise Decaires Narain
Reader in Postcolonial Literatures
University of Sussex
UK Section IV: Contemporary Black British Women Writers 13. Welcoming Familiars in Bernardine Evaristo's Fiction
Jennifer Gustar
Associat Professor
University of British Columbia Okanagan
Canada 14. 'An unexpected turn': Coincidence and responsibility in Aminatta Forna's Happiness Helen Cousins
Reader in Postcolonial Literature
Newman University
UK 15. "There are things you don't need to be told. You suckle them at your mother's teat": Dynamic Subjectivity
Breastfeeding
and Storycrafting in The First Woman (2021) by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Jenni Ramone
Associate Professor
Nottingham Trent University
UK 16. Black British Women Writers' Historical Fiction Dierdre Osborne
Reader in English Literature and Drama
Goldsmiths
UK 17. Bicultural Twins: Yoruba and British Tales of Twins in Diana Evans's 26a Jean Wyatt
Professor Emerita
Occidental College
USA Bibliography Index
Occidental College
and Sheldon George
Simmons University Section I: Contemporary African American Women Writers 1. "Would it be all right to go ahead and feel?": Constructing Black Women's Interiorities in Toni Morrison's Beloved
Angelyn Mitchell
Associate Professor
Georgetown University
USA 2. Writing (against) Abjection in Jesmyn Ward's Sing
Unburied
Sing (2017)
Claudine Raynaud
Professor Emerita
Université Paul-Valéry
France 3. Reproductive Exploitation and Maternal Subjectivity in Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild"
Naomi Morgenstern
Professor of English and American Literature
University Of Toronto
Canada 4. "'Are you now so deluded you think you exist outside the category of everything?': Black Motherhood beyond Cisgenderism in Rivers Solomon's An Unkindness of Ghosts"
Milo Obourn
Associate Professor
College At Brockport
State University Of New York
USA 5. Narration and Desire in Toni Morrison's Paradise and Home
Sheldon George
Professor of English
Simmons University
USA Section II: Contemporary African Women Writers 6. essai aí não sou eu' / 'this one here is not me' - losing oneself and finding one's sisters. Alienation and sorority in Paulina Chiziane's Niketche
Dorothe¿e Boulanger
Junior Research Fellow in Modern Languages
Jesus College
University Of Oxford
UK 7. Zimbabwean Decolonization
Unhu and Education in Tsitsi Dangarembga's The Book of Not
Brendon Nicholls
Associate Professor of Postcolonial African Studies
University Of Leeds
UK 8. Subjectivity "at the border" in Akwaeke Emezi and Toni Morrison
Pelagia Goulimari
Research Fellow
University Of Oxford
UK Section III: Contemporary Caribbean Women Writers 9. Bodies and belongings beyond the colonial imagination Alison Donnell
Professor in Modern Languages
University of East Anglia
UK 10. Intransitive subjectivities
Intransitive fiction: the question of modes
form and pattern in Alecia McKenzie's Sweetheart
Andrée-Anne Kekeh-Dika
Associate Professor
Université Paris 8
France 11. "Speculating on a Past/Future Self: Tan-Tan in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber" Rhonda Frederick
Associate Professor of English And African & African Diaspora Studies
Boston College
USA 12. Authoring the Self: textual strategies for self-making in Jamaica Kincaid
Dionne Brand and Diana Evans
Denise Decaires Narain
Reader in Postcolonial Literatures
University of Sussex
UK Section IV: Contemporary Black British Women Writers 13. Welcoming Familiars in Bernardine Evaristo's Fiction
Jennifer Gustar
Associat Professor
University of British Columbia Okanagan
Canada 14. 'An unexpected turn': Coincidence and responsibility in Aminatta Forna's Happiness Helen Cousins
Reader in Postcolonial Literature
Newman University
UK 15. "There are things you don't need to be told. You suckle them at your mother's teat": Dynamic Subjectivity
Breastfeeding
and Storycrafting in The First Woman (2021) by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Jenni Ramone
Associate Professor
Nottingham Trent University
UK 16. Black British Women Writers' Historical Fiction Dierdre Osborne
Reader in English Literature and Drama
Goldsmiths
UK 17. Bicultural Twins: Yoruba and British Tales of Twins in Diana Evans's 26a Jean Wyatt
Professor Emerita
Occidental College
USA Bibliography Index