Experimental Subjectivities in Global Black Women's Writing
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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.
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
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Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 19.9.2024 |
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Reihe/Serie | Bloomsbury Studies in Global Women’s Writing |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-38347-3 / 1350383473 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-38347-0 / 9781350383470 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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