Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers (eBook, ePUB)

Race, Ethics, Narrative Form
Redaktion: Wyatt, Jean; George, Sheldon

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Contemporary African American and Black British Women Writers: Narrative, Race, Ethics brings together British and American scholars to explore how, in texts by contemporary black women writers in the U. S. and Britain, formal narrative techniques express new understandings of race or stimulate ethical thinking about race in a reader.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429581359
• Artikelnr.: 58582899

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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