Reading contemporary Black British and African American women writers : race, ethics, narrative form

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Title:

Author:

George, Sheldon, 1973- editor.

ISBN:

9780429581359

9780429583254

9780429579134

9780429199271

Edition:

1st.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Series:

Narrative theory and culture

General Note:

Introduction: Narrative Theory and Contemporary Black Women Writers Jean Wyatt and Sheldon GeorgePart 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, UKChapter 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, USAChapter 5. Learning to Listen in Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing Stephanie Li, Professor of English, Indiana University Bloomington, USAChapter 6. Maternal Sovereignty: Destruction and Survival in Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones Naomi Morgenstern, Associate Professor of English and American Literature, University of Toronto, CanadaChapter 7. Narrating the Raced Subject: Toni Morrison's Jazz and the Literature of Modernism Sheldon George, Professor of English, Simmons University, USAPart 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, USAChapter 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, UKChapter 12. White Allyship and Narrative Dissonance in Andrea Levy's Small Island Agata Szczeszak-Brewer, Professor of English, Wabash College, USAChapter 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

Subject Term:

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

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

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

Narration (Rhetoric)

Race in literature.

Ethics in literature.

LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African-American

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors

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George, Sheldon, 1973-