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Author:   Jean Wyatt ,  Sheldon George
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.920kg
ISBN:  

9780367189280

ISBN 10:   0367189283
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   03 February 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Narrative Theory and Contemporary Black Women Writers Jean Wyatt and Sheldon George Part 1: African American Women Writers: Narrative Form, Race, Ethics Chapter 1. At the Crossroads of Form and Ideology: Disidentification in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen Catherine Romagnolo, Professor of English, Lebanon Valley College, USA Chapter 2. ""She was miraculously neutral"": Feeling, Ethics and Metafiction in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah Jennifer Terry, Associate Professor of English, Durham University, UK Chapter 3. Ableism and the Reproduction of Racial Difference in Nella Larsen’s Passing and Toni Morrison’s ""Recitatif"" Milo Obourn, Associate Professor of English, Brockport State University, USA Chapter 4. ""When We Speak of Otherness"": Narrative Unreliability and the Ethics of Othering in Toni Morrison’s Jazz and Home Herman Beavers, Professor of English and Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania, USA Chapter 5. Learning to Listen in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing Stephanie Li, Professor of English, Indiana University Bloomington, USA Chapter 6. Maternal Sovereignty: Destruction and Survival in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the BonesNaomi Morgenstern, Associate Professor of English and American Literature, University of Toronto, Canada Chapter 7. Narrating the Raced Subject: Toni Morrison’s Jazz and the Literature of Modernism Sheldon George, Professor of English, Simmons University, USA Part 2: Black British Women Writers: Narrative Form, Race, Ethics Chapter 8. Swing Time: Zadie Smith’s Aesthetic of Active Ambivalence Daphne Lamothe, Associate Professor Africana Studies, Smith College, USA Chapter 9. Zadie Smith’s Narratives of the Absurd: A Social Vision Represented through Humor Sarah Ilott, Lecturer in English and Film, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Chapter 10. Buchi Emecheta: Storyteller, Sociologist, and Citizen of the World Pamela Bromberg, Professor of English, Simmons University, USA Chapter 11. ""Where are you (really) from?"" Transgender ethics, ethics of unknowing, and transformative adoption in Jackie Kay’s Trumpet and Toni Morrison’s Jazz Pelagia Goulimari, English, University of Oxford, UK Chapter 12. White Allyship and Narrative Dissonance in Andrea Levy’s Small Island Agata Szczeszak-Brewer, Professor of English, Wabash College, USA Chapter 13: ""Civis Romana sum"": Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe and the Emancipatory Poetics of (Multi-) Cultural Citizenship Deirdre Osborne (Reader in English Literature, Goldsmiths, University of London) Chapter 14. Reinventing the Gothic in Oyeyemi’s White is for Witching: Maternal Ethics and Racial Politics Jean Wyatt, Professor of English, Occidental College, USA"

Reviews

"""This is such an important volume for developing an underexplored area of critical theory, and there is a sense of urgency about the endeavor of this collection, shared across essays. It establishes an excellent foundation for future work in the field."" --Helen Cousins (Newman University), Postcolonial Text Vol 16 No 2 (2021) ""Working at the intersection of race and gender, the insightful and engaging essays collected herein open up space for readers to better understand their own ethical positioning by better understanding the nuances of narrative as a means of ethical communication."" --James J. Donahue, SUNY Potsdam, New York, US ""Offering an important corrective to the notion that black-authored works are little more than social texts, the fourteen contributors to Wyatt and George’s collection make a compelling and spirited case for the rigorous analysis of literary form in the works of black women authors. This is an important and innovative book that will help to reorient and reenergize the scholarly conversation and critical practice surrounding the works of contemporary African American and Black British women writers."" --J. Brooks Bouson, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, US"

Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers is original and at the leading edge of a developing interest in this topic. It could potentially be one of the key texts of this field. It is outstanding in its engagement with appropriate theory. Helen Cousins, Newman University, Birmingham, UK

Author Information

Jean Wyatt is a Professor of English at Occidental College, USA. Sheldon George is a Professor of English at Simmons University, USA.

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