Global Black Women’s Writing: Experimental Subjectivities | Workshop 3

Global Black Women’s Writing: Experimental Subjectivities

Intersectional Humanities Programme's Workshop series

The event timings have changed. The new details are below.

Workshop 3: Friday 24 February 2023, 3-4pm UK time

Online - registration required

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Workshop convenors: Pelagia Goulimari (pelagia.goulimari@ell.ox.ac.uk), Sheldon George ( sheldon.george@simmons.edu) and Jean Wyatt (jwyatt@oxy.edu).

Speakers:

Jennifer Gustar (University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada)  
Tadiwa Madenga (Harvard University, US)
Rhonda Frederick (Boston College, US)

Presentations:

Welcoming Familiars:  Bernardine Evaristo’s Fiction and Black Women’s Time

Jennifer Gustar  (University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada)

 

Indigenous Pageantry: Shadow Subjectivities in Melissa Myambo's Jacaranda Journals

Tadiwa Madenga (Harvard University, US)

Imagining a Past/Future Self: Tan-Tan in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber

Rhonda Frederick (Boston College, US)

Please follow the link to Rhonda Frederick's new book, Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions, (Published by Rutgers University Press, 2022)

In what inventive ways do novels by global black women writers experiment with the representation of black subjectivity?  This set of four workshops will feature fourteen scholars of contemporary global literature who explore the inventiveness of black women writers from Britain, the Caribbean, Africa and the U.S.  Presenters will focus on authors such as Jesmyn Ward, Toni Morrison, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Paulina Chiziane, Nalo Hopkinson, Bernardine Evaristo and Helen Oyeyemi.  Through attention to the narrative form and stylistic innovations of such authors, presenters will explore how black women writers reshape the formal structure of their novels and pioneer different styles of narration in their efforts to depict the lives, histories and subjective realities of the racialized subjects represented by their characters.  Presentations will display the revolutionary content and stylistic innovations deployed by contemporary black women writers in their efforts to make readers confront and even change their fixed ideas about racialized subjects.

For more information please email  intersectionalhumanities@torch.ox.ac.uk.

Find out more about the Intersectional Humanities Programme here.