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Kay, Jackie --- Women authors, Scottish --- Authors, Scottish --- Adoptees --- Adoption. --- Birthparents --- Identification. --- Kay, Jackie,

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Experiments in Life-Writing: Intersections of Auto/Biography and Fiction probes the wealth and diversity of literary forms that fuse auto/biography and fiction in ingenious ways and interact with other artistic media. The international scholars and practitioners who have contributed to this unique volume engage with daring experiments in the dynamic genre of life-writing and enrich current debates in a flourishing field of study. -Monica Latham, Professor of British Literature, Université de Lorraine, France This volume examines innovative intersections of life-writing and experimental fiction in the 20th and 21st centuries, bringing together scholars and practicing biographers from several disciplines (Modern Languages, English and Comparative Literature, Creative Writing). It covers a broad range of biographical, autobiographical, and hybrid practices in a variety of national literatures, among them many recent works: texts that test the ground between fact and fiction, that are marked by impressionist, self-reflexive and intermedial methods, by their recourse to myth, folklore, poetry, or drama as they tell a historical character’s story. Between them, the essays shed light on the broad range of auto/biographical experimentation in modern Europe and will appeal to readers with an interest in the history and politics of form in life-writing: in the ways in which departures from traditional generic paradigms are intricately linked with specific views of subjectivity, with questions of personal, communal, and national identity. The Introduction of this book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Philosophy --- Linguistics --- Literature --- geletterdheid --- filosofie --- literatuur --- Brooke-Rose, Christine --- Kay, Jackie --- Schumann, Clara --- Cary, Elizabeth --- Johnston, B.S. --- Soler, Jordi --- Romano, Lalla --- Handke, Peter --- Marías, Javier --- anno 1900-1999

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In Queer Tidalectics, Emilio Amideo investigates how Anglophone writers James Baldwin, Jackie Kay, Thomas Glave, and Shani Mootoo employ the trope of fluidity to articulate a Black queer diasporic aesthetics. Water recurs as a figurative and material site to express the Black queer experience within the diaspora, a means to explore malleability and overflowing sexual, gender, and racial boundaries. Amideo triangulates language, the aquatic, and affect to delineate a Black queer aesthetics, one that uses an idiom of fluidity, slipperiness, and opacity to undermine and circumvent gender normativity and the racialized heteropatriarchy embedded in English. The result is an outline of an ever-expanding affective archive of experiential knowledge. Amideo engages and extends the work of Black queer studies, Oceanic studies, ecocriticism, phenomenology, and new materialism through the theorizations of Sara Ahmed, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, M. Jacqui Alexander, Édouard Glissant, José Esteban Muñoz, and Edward Kamau Brathwaite, among others. Ambitious in scope and captivating to read, Queer Tidalectics brings Caribbean writers like Glissant and Brathwaite into queer literary analysis-a major scholarly contribution.

English literature --- American literature --- Gays in literature. --- Water in literature. --- Queer theory. --- Black authors --- History and criticism. --- African American authors --- Baldwin, James, --- Kay, Jackie, --- Glave, Thomas --- Mootoo, Shani --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Aesthetics --- Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Human physiology --- Poetry --- Thematology --- Literature --- Race --- Feminism --- Writers --- Women --- Female body --- Blackness --- Book --- Hurston, Zora Neale --- Kay, Jackie --- Kennedy, Adrienne --- Brodber, Erna --- Melville, Pauline --- Alexander, Elizabeth --- Mullen, Harryette --- Philip, Marlene Nourbese --- Wicomb, Zoë --- Richards, Deborah --- Aidoo, Ama Ata --- Head, Bessie