UID:
almahu_9949386021102882
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 288 pages)
ISBN:
0429581351
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9780429583254
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0429583257
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9780429579134
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0429579136
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9780429199271
,
0429199279
,
9780429581359
Series Statement:
Narrative theory and culture
Content:
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. Taken together, the essays also demonstrate that black women writers from both sides of the Atlantic borrow formal structures and literary techniques from one another to describe the workings of structural racism in the daily lives of black subjects and to provoke readers to think anew about race. Narratology has only recently begun to use race as a category of narrative theory. This collection seeks both to show the ethical effects of narrative form on individual readers and to foster reconceptualizations of narrative theory that account for the workings of race within literature and culture.
Note:
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 -- Chapter 2. "She was miraculously neutral": Feeling, Ethics and Metafiction in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah / Jennifer Terry -- Chapter 3. Ableism and the Reproduction of Racial Difference in Nella Larsen's Passing and Toni Morrison's "Recitatif" / Milo Obourn -- Chapter 4. "When We Speak of Otherness": Narrative Unreliability and the Ethics of Othering in Toni Morrison's Jazz and Home / Herman Beavers -- Chapter 5. Learning to Listen in Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing / Stephanie Li -- Chapter 6. Maternal Sovereignty: Destruction and Survival in Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones / Naomi Morgenstern -- Chapter 7. Narrating the Raced Subject: Toni Morrison's Jazz and the Literature of Modernism / Sheldon George -- Part 2: Black British Women Writers: Narrative Form, Race, Ethics -- Chapter 8. Swing Time: Zadie Smith's Aesthetic of Active Ambivalence / Daphne Lamothe -- Chapter 9. Zadie Smith's Narratives of the Absurd: A Social Vision Represented through Humor / Sarah Ilott -- Chapter 10. Buchi Emecheta: Storyteller, Sociologist, and Citizen of the World / Pamela Bromberg -- 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 -- Chapter 12. White Allyship and Narrative Dissonance in Andrea Levy's Small Island / Agata Szczeszak-Brewer -- Chapter 13: "Civis Romana sum": Bernardine Evaristo's The Emperor's Babe and the Emancipatory Poetics of (Multi- ) Cultural Citizenship / Deirdre Osborne -- Chapter 14. Reinventing the Gothic in Oyeyemi's White is for Witching: Maternal Ethics and Racial Politics / Jean Wyatt.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780367189280
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.4324/9780429199271
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429199271
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