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Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers
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ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |12 pages
Introduction
part Part 1|127 pages
African American Women Writers
chapter 1|18 pages
At the Crossroads of Form and Ideology
chapter 2|19 pages
“She Was Miraculously Neutral”
chapter 3|17 pages
Disabling Racial Economies
chapter 4|19 pages
“When We Speak of Otherness”
chapter 6|18 pages
Maternal Sovereignty
chapter 7|18 pages
Narrating the Raced Subject
part Part 2|131 pages
Black British Women Writers