"In what innovative ways do novels by diasporic Black women writers experiment with the representation of Black subjectivity? This collection explores the inventiveness of contemporary Black women writers - Black British, African, Caribbean, African American - who remake traditional understandings of blackness"--

Introduction: Experimentation and Subjectivity in Global Black Women's Novels: Jean Wyatt and Sheldon GeorgePart One Contemporary African Women Writers: Uganda, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Nigeria1 "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 Ramone2 "This One Here Is Not Me": Decolonizing Female Subjectivities in Paulina Chiziane's Niketche: Uma história de poligamia: Dorothée Boulanger3 Zimbabwean Decolonization and Colonial Education: Ubuntu (Hunhu) in Tsitsi Dangarembga's The Book of Not: Brendon Nicholls4 Holding-Shedding: Akwaeke Emezi's Freshwater, ToniMorrison's Beloved, and Celestine Chukwuemeka Mbaegbu's Igbo Metaphysics: Pelagia GoulimariPart Two Contemporary African American Women Writers5 Constructing Black Women's Interiorities in Toni Morrison's Beloved: Angelyn Mitchell6 Writing (Against) Abjection in Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing: Claudine Raynaud7 "Is Your Mother Well?": Touch and the Racialized Maternal Subject in Toni Morrison's "Recitatif " and Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild": Naomi Morgenstern8 "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 Obourn9 Desire Beyond the Limits of Sanity: Subjectivity and Psychic Spatiality in Toni Morrison's Paradise:Sheldon GeorgePart Three Contemporary Caribbean Women Writers10 Authoring Selfhood: Experiments in Self-Making in Jamaica Kincaid, Dionne Brand and Diana Evans: Denise deCaires Narain11 From "Half " to "Half," or the Question of Being in Alecia McKenzie's Sweetheart: Andrée-Anne Kekeh-Dika12 Imagining a Past/Future Self: Tan-Tan in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber: Rhonda D. FrederickPart Four: Contemporary Black British Women Writers13 Disorienting Subjectivity: Spatial Relations and Yoruba Themes in Helen Oyeyemi's The Icarus Girl: Jean Wyatt14 Welcoming Familiars: Memory Work in Bernardine Evaristo's Fiction: Jennifer Gustar15 "An Unexpected Turn": Coincidence and Community in Aminatta Forna's Happiness: Helen Cousins