Experimental Subjectivities in Global Black Women's Writing

Race and Narrative Innovation. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 280 Seiten
ISBN 1350383473
EAN 9781350383470
Veröffentlicht 19. September 2024
Verlag/Hersteller Bloomsbury Academic

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Beschreibung

"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"--

Portrait

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).