Experimental Subjectivities in Global Black Women's Writing

Introduction: Experimentation and Subjectivity in Global Black Women's Novels: Jean Wyatt and Sheldon George

Part One Contemporary African Women Writers: Uganda, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Nigeria

1 "There Are Things You Don't Need to Be Told. You Suckle Them at Your Mother's Teat": Dynamic Subjectivity, Breastfeeding, and Storycrafting in The First Woman by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi: Jenni Ramone

2 "This One Here Is Not Me": Decolonizing Female Subjectivities in Paulina Chiziane's Niketche: Uma história de poligamia: Dorothée Boulanger

3 Zimbabwean Decolonization and Colonial Education: Ubuntu (Hunhu) in Tsitsi Dangarembga's The Book of Not: Brendon Nicholls

4 Holding-Shedding: Akwaeke Emezi's Freshwater, ToniMorrison's Beloved, and Celestine Chukwuemeka Mbaegbu's Igbo Metaphysics: Pelagia Goulimari

Part Two Contemporary African American Women Writers

5 Constructing Black Women's Interiorities in Toni Morrison's Beloved: Angelyn Mitchell

6 Writing (Against) Abjection in Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing: Claudine Raynaud

7 "Is Your Mother Well?": Touch and the Racialized Maternal Subject in Toni Morrison's "Recitatif " and Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild": Naomi Morgenstern

8 "Are You Now So Deluded You Think You Exist Outside the Category of Everything?": A Posthumanist Critical Disability Analysis of Black Motherhood Beyond Cisgenderism in Rivers Solomon's An Unkindness of Ghosts: Milo Obourn

9 Desire Beyond the Limits of Sanity: Subjectivity and Psychic Spatiality in Toni Morrison's Paradise:
Sheldon George

Part Three Contemporary Caribbean Women Writers

10 Authoring Selfhood: Experiments in Self-Making in Jamaica Kincaid, Dionne Brand and Diana Evans: Denise deCaires Narain

11 From "Half " to "Half," or the Question of Being in Alecia McKenzie's Sweetheart: Andrée-Anne Kekeh-Dika

12 Imagining a Past/Future Self: Tan-Tan in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber: Rhonda D. Frederick

Part Four: Contemporary Black British Women Writers

13 Disorienting Subjectivity: Spatial Relations and Yoruba Themes in Helen Oyeyemi's The Icarus Girl: Jean Wyatt

14 Welcoming Familiars: Memory Work in Bernardine Evaristo's Fiction: Jennifer Gustar

15 "An Unexpected Turn": Coincidence and Community in Aminatta Forna's Happiness: Helen Cousins