1st Edition
Fragmented Forms in African American Women’s Memoir Poetics, Praxis, and Politics
Introduction
Chapter 1 Claudia Rankine’s Citizen — Lyric Fragment
“Who is this You?”: White|Blank|Empty Space and the Multilectical You
in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric
Chapter 2 Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Mother — Palimpsest
Between Stranger and Kin: Palimpsestic Erasures, Redacted Memoir, and the Unwritten Name of the Mother in Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Mother: A Journey along the Atlantic Slave Route
Chapter 3 Winnifred Brown-Glaude, Cassandra Jackson, Piper Kendrix Williams, and
Juda Bennett, The Toni Morrison Book Club - Interstitial Khoros
Toward a Critical Intimacy: Shared Voice, Group Memoir,
and the Interstitial, Polyphonic We in The Toni Morrison Book Club
Chapter 4 Beyoncé Knowles, Lemonade – Assemblage
“If We are to Heal”: Reading Black Femme Inter/Subjectivities in Beyoncé’s Choreoform Assemblage, Lemonade
Coda
Biography
Yolanda M. Manora earned her Ph.D. in English from Emory University and also holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College. An Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama, Manora has received grants/funding support for her scholarly and arts-integrative research projects from the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
