ISBN:
9780367189280
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 288 Seiten.
Series Statement:
Narrative theory and culture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Geschichte 1980-2020
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Geschichte 2000-2020
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors
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Adichie
;
Ali Smith
;
Americanah
;
Andrea Levy
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african american literature
;
american literature
;
authority
;
Boy, Snow, Bird
;
Buchi Emecheta
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black women's literature
;
british literature
;
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
;
Chinua Achebe
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citizenship
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contemporary british literature
;
contemporary literature
;
cultural studies
;
ethical studies
;
fiction
;
Girl Meets Boy
;
Gloria Naylor
;
gender
;
humor
;
humour
;
identity
;
Jamaica Kincaid
;
Jazz and Home
;
Jesmyn Ward
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Jumping Monkey Hill
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Mama Day
;
maternity
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metafiction
;
modern british literature
;
modern literature
;
narrative
;
Revenge
;
race
;
Salvage The Bones
;
See Now Then
;
Shame
;
Sing, Unburied, Sing
;
Survival
;
Swing Time
;
small island
;
Toni Morrison
;
Trumpet
;
vulnerability
;
women of color
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Schriftstellerin.
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Schwarze.
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Frauenliteratur.
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Englisch.
;
Autorin.
;
Großbritannien.
;
USA.
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Schriftstellerin
;
Schwarze
;
Frauenliteratur
;
Geschichte 1980-2020
;
Englisch
;
Frauenliteratur
;
Schwarze
;
Geschichte 1980-2020
;
Englisch
;
Schwarze
;
Autorin
;
Geschichte 2000-2020
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.
