{"product_id":"experimental-subjectivities-in-global-black-womens-writing-race-and-narrative-innovation-9781350383470","title":"Experimental Subjectivities in Global Black Women's Writing: Race and Narrative Innovation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/b\u003eAs 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean Wyatt \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor Emeritus of English at Occidental College, USA. Her previous publications include \u003ci\u003eLove and Narrative Form in Toni Morrison's Later Novels \u003c\/i\u003e(2017) and, with Sheldon George, she edited \u003ci\u003eReading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers \u003c\/i\u003e(2020)\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eHer articles include: \"Freud, Laplanche, Leonardo: Sustaining Enigma\" \u003ci\u003eAmerican Imago \u003c\/i\u003e(2019); \"Reinventing the Gothic in Helen Oyeyemi's '\u003ci\u003eWhite is for Witching\u003c\/i\u003e': Maternal Ethics and Racial Politics,\" in \u003ci\u003eReading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers; \u003c\/i\u003e\"Dislocating the Reader: Slave Motherhood and the Disrupted Temporality of Trauma in Toni Morrison's \u003ci\u003eBeloved\u003c\/i\u003e,\" in \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis \u003c\/i\u003e(ed.Vera Camden, 2022); and \"Mirror Mirror: The Visual Economy of Race in Helen Oyeyemi's \u003ci\u003eBoy, Snow, Bird\u003c\/i\u003e,\" and \"Alter Egos in Nella Larsen's \u003ci\u003ePassing \u003c\/i\u003eand Helen Oyeyemi's \u003ci\u003eBoy, Snow, Bird\u003c\/i\u003e: Race and Dissociation\" for \u003ci\u003eAngelaki\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSheldon George \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Africana Studies at University of Massachusetts, Boston. His scholarship focuses on race and racism through a study of culture, literature and theory. George is an associate editor of \u003ci\u003ePsychoanalysis, Culture and Society \u003c\/i\u003eand chair of the MLA Executive Committee for the forum, Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature. He is author of \u003ci\u003eTrauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity \u003c\/i\u003e(2016); co-editor, with Derek Hook, of \u003ci\u003eLacan and Race: Racism, Identity, and Psychoanalytic Theory\u003c\/i\u003e (2021); and co-editor, with Jean Wyatt, of \u003ci\u003eReading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers: Race, Ethics, Narrative Form\u003c\/i\u003e (2020).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51183240872210,"sku":"9781350383470","price":142.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c5993d8f-c68b-48fe-b104-6e3f8b01fb7b.jpg?v=1744459806","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/experimental-subjectivities-in-global-black-womens-writing-race-and-narrative-innovation-9781350383470","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}