Dr Jenny Terry's Outputs (8)

“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.

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

The Fiction of W. E. B. Du Bois. (2008)
Book Chapter
Terry, J. (2008). The Fiction of W. E. B. Du Bois. In S. Zamir (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to W.E.B. Du Bois (48-63). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/ccol9780521871518.004

'When All the Wars Are Over': The Utopian Impulses of Toni Morrison’s Postwar Fiction (2007)
Book Chapter
Terry, J. (2007). 'When All the Wars Are Over': The Utopian Impulses of Toni Morrison’s Postwar Fiction. In A. Usandizaga, & A. Monnickendam (Eds.), Back to peace : reconciliation and retribution in the postwar period (95-118). Notre Dame University Press

A New World Religion? Creolisation and Candomblé in Toni Morrison’s Paradise. (2006)
Book Chapter
Terry, J. (2006). Candomblé in Toni Morrison’s Paradise. In S. Stave (Ed.), Toni Morrison and the Bible: Contested Intertextualities (192-214). Peter Lang

A. J. Verdelle (2005)
Book Chapter
Terry, J. (2005). A. J. Verdelle. In H. M. Ostrom, & D. J. Jr. (Eds.), The Greenwood encyclopedia of African American literature (1653-1654). Greenwood Press. https://doi.org/10.1336/0313329729