{"id":2761,"date":"2020-09-23T18:10:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T17:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/?p=2761"},"modified":"2024-09-04T10:20:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T09:20:59","slug":"university-of-greenwich-scholar-features-in-successful-womens-writing-publication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/2020\/09\/23\/university-of-greenwich-scholar-features-in-successful-womens-writing-publication\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Greenwich Scholar features in successful Women’s Writing publication"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dr Justine Baillie<\/a>, a member of the Literature and Language Research Group – under the auspices of CREL (Centre for Research and Enterprise in Language) – has edited, and contributed an essay to,\u00a0Global Morrison<\/em>, a special issue of Oxford University Press’s journal\u00a0Contemporary Women’s Writing<\/em>. The issue is dedicated to the global significance of the Nobel prize-winning African-American novelist, Toni Morrison. Having been commissioned by the general editors of\u00a0Contemporary Women’s Writing<\/em>\u00a0to lead the\u00a0Global Morrison<\/em>\u00a0research group, Justine organised a very successful two-day international conference at the University of Greenwich in June 2017 and has now edited the proceedings for the OUP publication.\u00a0Contributors examine Morrison\u2019s literary articulations with the works of writers such as Italian novelist Umberto Eco, British novelist Zadie Smith, French writer Gis\u00e8le Pineau, Afro-Brazilian author Concei\u00e7\u00e3o Evaristo, and American poet Robin Coste Lewis.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The publication is timely, as recent Black Lives Matters activism has focussed attention on global histories of colonialism, slavery and racism. In her Introduction to the issue Justine writes that Morrison’s 1987 neo-slave narrative Beloved<\/em> \u2018was the catalyst for new interrogations of race, slavery, trauma and of colonialism\u2019s displacements, which connect the local, specific experience with world history’. Justine’s contribution to Global Morrison<\/em>, ‘Morrison and the Transnation: Toni\u2028Morrison, God Help the Child<\/em> and Zadie\u2028Smith, Swing Time<\/em>‘, brings together contemporary debates about the postracial and the post-black with conceptualizations of the transnation that destabilize the alignment of race and gender with nationalism. Morrison\u2019s considerations of globalization, nationhood, and race in her essay The<\/em> Origin of Others<\/em> (2017) are used to illuminate the central concerns of her last work of fiction, God Help the Child<\/em> (2015) and British writer Zadie Smith’s novel Swing Time<\/em> (2017). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Future projects, coordinated within CREL by Literature and Research Seminar Series leaders Justine Baillie, Emily Critchley and Katarina Stenke, include the organisation of a conference on neo-slave narratives that will continue the work initiated at the Global Morrison<\/em> conference at Greenwich. Ade Solanke’s script in hand performance of Phillis in London<\/em>, her play about the first female African-American poet Phillis Wheatley’s visit to London in the eighteenth century, was a highlight of the Global Morrison <\/em>conference of 2017 and Ade’s continued research on the eighteenth-century black presence in London will feature in the proposed neo-slave narratives conference. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to Justine Baillie and all contributing authors for the well deserved spotlight!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Out now: Contemporary Women’s Writing <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Justine Baillie, a member of the Literature and Language Research Group – under the auspices of CREL (Centre for Research and Enterprise in Language) – has edited, and contributed an essay to,\u00a0Global Morrison, a special issue of Oxford University Press’s journal\u00a0Contemporary Women’s Writing. The issue is dedicated to the global significance of the Nobel … <\/p>\n

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