Global Black Women’s Writing: Experimental Subjectivities
Workshop 3: Friday 24 February 2023, 3-4pm UK time
Workshop convenors: Pelagia Goulimari (pelagia.goulimari@ell.ox.ac.uk), Sheldon George (sheldon.george@simmons.edu) and Jean Wyatt (jwyatt@oxy.edu).
Speakers:
Sheldon George (Simmons University, Boston, US)
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)
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.
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