Fragmented Forms in African American Women’s Memoir
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- ISBN 9781032742366
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 06 May 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Fragmented Forms in African American Women’s Memoir examines fragment as formal praxis in autobiographical works by Black women makers, critics and creatives, including Claudia Rankine, Saidiya Hartman, and Beyonce Knowles. Exploring a range of forms, from the lyric fragment to the ellipses, from assemblages to palimpsests, this volume illuminates Black women memoirists’ use of unconventional fragmented forms in their work, expanding the formal parameters of what critics and creatives consider fragment to include these modes and examining the specific ways each of them serves the memoirists’ layered project of crafting personal life stories that unfold to reveal discursive spaces for communal ones.
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.
