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Dr Jenny Terry's Outputs (22)

Scopes, Specula, the Speculative: Histories of Medical Experimentation and Looking in African American Art and Fiction (2024)
Journal Article
Terry, J. (online). Scopes, Specula, the Speculative: Histories of Medical Experimentation and Looking in African American Art and Fiction. Journal of American Studies, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875824000136

This article traces a speculative and critical engagement with histories of health care disparity and medical exploitation shared across fictions by Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison, and the artwork of Ellen Gallagher. It argues that insistent returns... Read More about Scopes, Specula, the Speculative: Histories of Medical Experimentation and Looking in African American Art and Fiction.

‘It was a departure of sorts’: glocal homes in recent short fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Efemia Chela, Chibundu Onuzo and Lesley Nneka Arimah (2022)
Journal Article
Terry, J. (2023). ‘It was a departure of sorts’: glocal homes in recent short fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Efemia Chela, Chibundu Onuzo and Lesley Nneka Arimah. Cultural Studies, 37(2), 224-242. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2104894

This article takes off from two of the angles of contention found in critical responses to Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic and subsequent Atlanticist studies: asymmetries and exclusions along gender lines, and insufficient attention to the dynamics... Read More about ‘It was a departure of sorts’: glocal homes in recent short fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Efemia Chela, Chibundu Onuzo and Lesley Nneka Arimah.

“She was miraculously neutral”: Feeling, Ethics and Metafiction in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2020)
Book Chapter
Terry, J. (2020). “She was miraculously neutral”: Feeling, Ethics and Metafiction in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah. In J. Wyatt, & S. George (Eds.), Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers: Race: Ethics: Narrative Form (33-51). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429199271

This chapter examines the ethical and political inquiry at the center of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s third novel, Americanah, published in 2013. The thinking of Sara Ahmed and Judith Butler helps elucidate the text’s exploration of emotion’s part in o... Read More about “She was miraculously neutral”: Feeling, Ethics and Metafiction in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah.

The Past, Present and Future in Critical Afrofuturisms (2016)
Book Chapter
Terry, J. (2016). The Past, Present and Future in Critical Afrofuturisms. In C. Bailey, & F. Okoye (Eds.), The future of us : an anthology (47-55). Afrofutures_UK

As contributors to this collection think imaginatively about the future, and what it might mean to be black in the future, an accompanying question is what kind of relation to the past will there be? In the area of culture termed Afrofuturism (a labe... Read More about The Past, Present and Future in Critical Afrofuturisms.

‘When the sea of living memory has receded’: Cultural Memory and Literary Narratives of the Middle Passage (2013)
Journal Article
Terry, J. (2013). ‘When the sea of living memory has receded’: Cultural Memory and Literary Narratives of the Middle Passage. Memory Studies, 6(4), 474-488. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698012467999

This article considers the emergence of the slave Middle Passage between Africa and the Americas as a pervasive topic and figure in modern black diasporic literature. It explores representation of the Atlantic crossing alongside broader questions abo... Read More about ‘When the sea of living memory has receded’: Cultural Memory and Literary Narratives of the Middle Passage.

‘Breathing the air of a world so new’: Rewriting the Landscape of America in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy (2013)
Journal Article
Terry, J. (2014). ‘Breathing the air of a world so new’: Rewriting the Landscape of America in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy. Journal of American Studies, 48(1), 127-145. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021875813000686

This article explores Toni Morrison's preoccupation with, and reimagining of, the landscape of the so-called New World. Drawing on scholarship that has investigated dominant discourses about freedom, bounty, and possibility located within the America... Read More about ‘Breathing the air of a world so new’: Rewriting the Landscape of America in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy.

Toni Morrison. (2009)
Book Chapter
Terry, J. (2009). Toni Morrison. In D. Seed (Ed.), A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction (480-488). Wiley

'When Dey ’Listed Colored Soldiers': Paul Lawrence Dunbar’s Poetic Engagement with the Civil War, Masculinity and Violence. (2009)
Book Chapter
Terry, J. (2009). 'When Dey ’Listed Colored Soldiers': Paul Lawrence Dunbar’s Poetic Engagement with the Civil War, Masculinity and Violence. In K. D. Darrow (Ed.), Nineteenth-century Literature Criticism. Criticism of various topics in nineteenth-century literature, including literary and critical movements, prominent themes and genres, anniversary celebrations, and surveys of national literatures. Gale / Cengage Learning