Reading to Resist - Contemporary Black British Womens Writing

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.

List of contents

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)

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Suzanne (London South Bank University) Scafe, Scafe Suzanne
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 18.07.2025
• EAN: 9781032546292
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3254629-2
• No. of pages: 194
• Series: Routledge Literary Studies in Social Justice
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; History, Sociology, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), HISTORY / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, Humanities, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gender studies: women, Relating to Black British people, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000