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SUMMARY:WGSS Spring 2023 Speaker Series: Merve Sarıkaya-Şen
DESCRIPTION:\n&ldquo\;CONTEMPORARY BLACK WOMEN&rsquo\;S FICTION: \;T
ransmodern Ethics and Poetics of Crisis and Limits&rdquo\;\n\nThis study
explores contemporary narratives of the limit revolving around differen
t forms of crisis faced by Black women and queers especially in the late
twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. Their voice has gained mor
e visibility in such contemporary narratives as Nicole Dennis Benn&rsquo
\;s Patsy (2019)\; Britt Bennett&rsquo\;s The Vanishing Half (2020)\; Ya
a Gyasi&rsquo\;s Transcendent Kingdom (2020)\; Nnedi Okarafor&rsquo\;s W
ho Fears Death (2010)\; Chinelo Okparanta&rsquo\;s Under the Udala Trees
(2015)\; Taiye Selasi&rsquo\;s Ghana Must Go (2013)\; Rivers Solomon&rs
quo\;s An Unkindness of Ghosts (2017)\; and Jacqueline Woodson&rsquo\;s
Red at the Bone (2020). These narratives present the evident and/or subt
le systematic exclusions faced by Black women and queers at different le
vels\; they are treated as if they were ungrievable lives and irrelevant
beings by the upholders of power. By analyzing a wide range of narrativ
es that have received wide critical acclaim as well as those that have p
assed unnoticed\, this study explores the variety of Black women&rsquo\;
s and queers&rsquo\; states and responses when faced with a crisis.\n\nF
or more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/wgss_merve-sarikaya-sen
/
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MPORARY BLACK WOMEN’S FICTION: Transmodern Ethics and Poetics
of Crisis and Limits”
This study explores contemporary
narratives of the limit revolving around different forms of crisis faced
by Black women and queers especially in the late twentieth- and early t
wenty-first centuries. Their voice has gained more visibility in such co
ntemporary narratives as Nicole Dennis Benn’s Patsy (2019);
Britt Bennett’s The Vanishing Half (2020); Yaa Gyasi&rsquo
;s Transcendent Kingdom (2020); Nnedi Okarafor’s Who Fea
rs Death (2010); Chinelo Okparanta’s Under the Udala Trees<
/i> (2015); Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go (2013); Rivers Sol
omon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts (2017); and Jacqueline Woods
on’s Red at the Bone (2020). These narratives present the e
vident and/or subtle systematic exclusions faced by Black women and quee
rs at different levels; they are treated as if they were ungrievable liv
es and irrelevant beings by the upholders of power. By analyzing a wide
range of narratives that have received wide critical acclaim as well as
those that have passed unnoticed, this study explores the variety of Bla
ck women’s and queers’ states and responses when faced with
a crisis.
For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/wgss_merve-
sarikaya-sen/
LOCATION:335 Willard Building
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