Introduction: Experimentation and Subjectivity in Black Diasporic Women's Novels
Jean Wyatt, Occidental College, and Sheldon George, Simmons University

Section I: Contemporary African American Women Writers
1. "Would it be all right to go ahead and feel?": Constructing Black Women's Interiorities in Toni Morrison's Beloved, Angelyn Mitchell, Associate Professor, Georgetown University, USA

2. Writing (against) Abjection in Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017), Claudine Raynaud, Professor Emerita, Université Paul-Valéry, France

3. Reproductive Exploitation and Maternal Subjectivity in Octavia Butler's “Bloodchild”, Naomi Morgenstern, Professor of English and American Literature, University Of Toronto, Canada

4. “'Are you now so deluded you think you exist outside the category of everything?': Black Motherhood beyond Cisgenderism in Rivers Solomon's An Unkindness of Ghosts”, Milo Obourn, Associate Professor, College At Brockport, State University Of New York, USA

5. Narration and Desire in Toni Morrison's Paradise and Home, Sheldon George, Professor of English, Simmons University, USA

Section II: Contemporary African Women Writers
6. essai aí não sou eu' / 'this one here is not me' – losing oneself and finding one's sisters. Alienation and sorority in Paulina Chiziane's Niketche, Dorothe´e Boulanger, Junior Research Fellow in Modern Languages, Jesus College, University Of Oxford, UK

7. Zimbabwean Decolonization, Unhu and Education in Tsitsi Dangarembga's The Book of Not, Brendon Nicholls, Associate Professor of Postcolonial African Studies, University Of Leeds, UK

8. Subjectivity “at the border” in Akwaeke Emezi and Toni Morrison, Pelagia Goulimari, Research Fellow, University Of Oxford, UK

Section III: Contemporary Caribbean Women Writers
9. Bodies and belongings beyond the colonial imagination
Alison Donnell, Professor in Modern Languages, University of East Anglia, UK

10. Intransitive subjectivities, Intransitive fiction: the question of modes, form and pattern in Alecia McKenzie's Sweetheart, Andrée-Anne Kekeh-Dika, Associate Professor, Université Paris 8, France

11. “Speculating on a Past/Future Self: Tan-Tan in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber”
Rhonda Frederick, Associate Professor of English And African & African Diaspora Studies, Boston College, USA

12. Authoring the Self: textual strategies for self-making in Jamaica Kincaid, Dionne Brand and Diana Evans, Denise Decaires Narain, Reader in Postcolonial Literatures, University of Sussex, UK

Section IV: Contemporary Black British Women Writers
13. Welcoming Familiars in Bernardine Evaristo's Fiction, Jennifer Gustar, Associat Professor, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada

14. 'An unexpected turn': Coincidence and responsibility in Aminatta Forna's Happiness
Helen Cousins, Reader in Postcolonial Literature, Newman University, UK

15. “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 (2021) by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Jenni Ramone, Associate Professor, Nottingham Trent University, UK

16. Black British Women Writers' Historical Fiction
Dierdre Osborne, Reader in English Literature and Drama, Goldsmiths, UK

17. Bicultural Twins: Yoruba and British Tales of Twins in Diana Evans's 26a
Jean Wyatt, Professor Emerita, Occidental College, USA

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