Reading to Resist

Fiction by Contemporary Black British Women Writers
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-54629-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Literary Studies in Social Justice

This is the first book to focus on writing by black British women writers, using an approach that highlights the potential of this fiction to intervene into discourses that shape the worlds in which it is situated.

Reading to Resist: Fiction by Contemporary Black British Women undertakes a close, innovative reading of the novels selected, one that focuses on the texts’ aesthetics as well as their thematic engagement with the worlds of their readers and the worlds the texts themselves construct. Each chapter examines themes such as freedom and agency, moral understanding, and history, while also exploring issues of importance to the contemporary period such as well-being, success, and achievement.  Reading to Resist covers a broad range of fiction including the work of internationally acclaimed writers such as Nadifa Mohamed, Zadie Smith, Diana Evans and Buchi Emecheta, as well as fiction by much less well-known writers such as Jacqueline Walker, Yvvette Edwards, and Jacqueline Roy, whose work is yet to garner critical attention.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, Professional, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scafe, Suzanne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  1. Resisting Voicelessness: Contemporary Black British Women’s Autobiography  2. Wrongdoing and Repair in the work of Yvvette Edwards, Diana Evans, Zadie Smith and Nadifa Mohamed  3. “Saying Madness”: Jacqueline Roy’s The Fat Lady Sings and the fiction of Diana Evans  4. Parting the Veil, Re-writing and Re-purposing the Past: Laura Fish’s Strange Music (2009) and Sara Collins’ The Confession of Frannie Langton  5. Mobility, Achievement, and Failure: Buchi Emecheta’s Head Above Water (1986), Zadie Smith’s NW (2012), Zadie Smith’s Swing Time (2016) and Natasha Brown’s Assembly (2021)

Über Autor(innen)

Suzanne Scafe is a Visiting Professor at Vrije University, Brussels. She has taught at several Universities in Europe and in London, UK and written several journal articles and book chapters on the work of a wide range of African-diasporic writers. She is the author of Teaching Black Literature and co-author of The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain.