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Experimental Subjectivities in Global Black Women's Writing: Race and Narrative Innovation

Experimental Subjectivities in Global Black Women's Writing: Race and Narrative Innovation

George, Sheldon
Wyatt, Jean
Mulvey-Roberts, Marie

Hardcover

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Global Women's Writing

Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1350383473
ISBN13: 9781350383470
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Sep 19 2024
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In what innovative ways do novels by diasporic Black women writers experiment with the representation of Black subjectivity? This collection explores the inventiveness of contemporary Black women writers - Black British, African, Caribbean, African American - who remake traditional understandings of blackness. As the title word experimental signals, these essays foreground the narrative form and stylistic innovations of the black-authored novels they analyze. They also show how these experiments with form mirror the novels' convention-breaking experiments with reimagining Black female subjectivities.

While each novel, of course, represents the complexities of diasporic experiences differently, some issues emerge that are broadly shared not just within a regional group, but across geographical borders. One feature of the collection is a comparative look at such linking themes across borders, under the rubrics: a return to precolonial systems of belief, reinventions of mothering, relational subjectivities, memory, history and haunting, and posthumanist revaluations. These themes take different shapes across the multitude of diverse cultures studied in this book. But together they establish a pan-global imaginative practice.

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