Reading contemporary Black British and African American women writers : race, ethics, narrative form / edited by Sheldon George and Jean Wyatt.

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Book

Contributor:

George, Sheldon, 1973- editor.

Wyatt, Jean, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Narrative theory and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--Black authors--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

English fiction--Women authors.

American fiction--African American women authors--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Race in literature.

African American women authors.

English fiction--Black authors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 288 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Jean Wyatt is aProfessor of English atOccidental College, USA. Sheldon George is aProfessor of English atSimmons University, USA.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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