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Overview""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""-- Full Product DetailsAuthor: Professor Sheldon George , Professor Jean WyattPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic ISBN: 9781350383470ISBN 10: 1350383473 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 19 September 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"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"ReviewsThe book we’ve been wanting on narrative experimentation and black diaspora women’s writing. * Nicole King, University of Oxford, UK. * Author InformationJean 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 of Africana Studies at University of Massachusetts, Boston. His scholarship focuses on race and racism through a study of culture, literature and theory. George is an associate editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society and chair of the MLA Executive Committee for the forum, Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature. He is author of Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity (2016); co-editor, with Derek Hook, of Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity, and Psychoanalytic Theory (2021); and co-editor, with Jean Wyatt, of Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers: Race, Ethics, Narrative Form (2020). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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