Title: Against Their Will
Subtitle: Black Women Novelists Fictionalizing Narratives of Womanhood, Trauma, and Legacies
Subject Classification:  Race and Racism, Gender Studies, Literature and Literary Criticism  
BIC Classification: JFSJ, JFSL, DS
BISAC Classification: SOC028000, LIT004290, LIT004040
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Planned publication date: Sep 2025
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-83711-007-0
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-83711-008-7

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Description

Black women novelists use their female characters to create stories that challenge stereotypical depictions regarding womanhood, trauma, and legacies in the larger society. Such women novelists rooted in literary tradition traceable to the nineteenth in which they endeavored to insert their voices into these conversations while deconstructing these depictions.

Modernized in the 1970s, this literary tradition has enabled Black women novelists to expand their novelic stories that include semiautobiographical accounts blended with fiction. Novelists such as Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones, Alice Walker, Octavia Butler, Ntozake Shange, Gloria Naylor, and Edwidge Danticat use their texts to present readers with alternative portrayals of Black female characters. Using singular monolithic texts by each author, this book explores how Morrison, Jones, Walker, Butler, Shange, Naylor, and Danticat present readers with female characters that use their lived experiences, social realities, and storytelling to navigate their womanhood, heal their trauma, and create their legacies.

Key audiences for the book include undergraduate and graduate students and instructors in Women and Gender Studies courses, and African American literature.

Biography

Author(s):  Dr. Tammie Jenkins is a researcher and writer, based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. Dr. Jenkins holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Curriculum and Instruction from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. Her research interests include literature, popular culture, and diasporic history.

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