ABSTRACT

In this article I discuss Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other (2019) as a transmodern narrative that gives voice to a marginalised group of black women living in Britain. Written in a hybrid style that combines prose and poetry and eschewing punctuation and long sentences, the novel interweaves sundry stories from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first century set in countries ranging from Africa, the Caribbean, and America to Britain. This networked structure exposes transtemporal and transnational patterns of diversity, connectedness and relationality, as well as the distinctive genealogy of black British women and their maternal empowerment. I argue that the resilience of the characters in the face of social, racial and gender marginalisation springs from their empathic relatedness and solidarity. This emphasis on the importance of care for the other highlights the need for improving not only women’s rights and socioeconomic opportunities but of benefiting humanity on a broader scale.

摘要

在本文中，我将讨论Bernardine Evaristo的《女孩，女人，其他》（2019）作为一种超现代叙事，向生活在英国的边缘化黑人妇女群体表达了声音。这部小说以混合风格撰写，融合了散文，诗歌，规避标点符号和冗长的句子，将十九世纪末至二十一世纪的各种故事交织在一起，涉及非洲，加勒比海，美国和英国等国家。这种网络化的结构揭示了多样性，联系性和关系性的跨时和跨国模式，以及英国黑人妇女及其母性赋权的独特家谱。我认为，角色在面对社会，种族和性别边缘化时的应变能力源于他们的移情联系和团结。