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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction 1. Resisting Voicelessness: Contemporary Black British Women's Autobiography 2. Wrongdoing and Repair in the Work of Yvvette Edwards, 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 and Sara Collins's The Confession of Frannie Langton 5. Mobility, Achievement, and Failure: Buchi Emecheta's Head above Water, Zadie Smith's NW, Swing Time, and Natasha Brown's Assembly
