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Experimental Subjectivities in Global Black Women's Writing: Race and Narrative Innovation: Bloomsbury Studies in Global Women’s Writing

Editat de Professor Sheldon George, Professor Jean Wyatt
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 sep 2024
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. As the title word "experimental" signals, these essays foreground the narrative form and stylistic innovations of the black-authored novels they analyze. They also show how these experiments with form mirror the novels' convention-breaking experiments with reimagining Black female subjectivities. While each novel, of course, represents the complexities of diasporic experiences differently, some issues emerge that are broadly shared not just within a regional group, but across geographical borders. One feature of the collection is a comparative look at such linking themes across borders, under the rubrics: a return to precolonial systems of belief, reinventions of mothering, relational subjectivities, memory, history and haunting, and posthumanist revaluations. These themes take different shapes across the multitude of diverse cultures studied in this book. But together they establish a pan-global imaginative practice.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350383470
ISBN-10: 1350383473
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Bloomsbury Studies in Global Women’s Writing

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

A companion to the editor's previous collection published with Routledge, Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers: Race, Ethics, Narrative Form (2020), this book crucially re-focuses the study of Black women's writing away from its sociological significance and gives much due attention to their innovation in style and form

Notă biografică

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).

Cuprins

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 Writers1. "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 Writers6. 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 Writers9. Bodies and belongings beyond the colonial imaginationAlison 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, France11. "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 Writers13. 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 HappinessHelen 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 FictionDierdre 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, USABibliography Index

Recenzii

The book we've been wanting on narrative experimentation and black diaspora women's writing.