Jean Wyatt

Jean Wyatt is Professor Emeritus of English at Occidental College, USA. Her previous publications include Love and Narrative Form in Toni Morrison's Later Novels (2017) and, with Sheldon George, she edited Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers (2020) . Her articles include: "Freud, Laplanche, Leonardo: Sustaining Enigma" American Imago (2019); "Reinventing the Gothic in Helen Oyeyemi's ' White is for Witching ': Maternal Ethics and Racial Politics," in Reading...See more

Jean Wyatt is Professor Emeritus of English at Occidental College, USA. Her previous publications include Love and Narrative Form in Toni Morrison's Later Novels (2017) and, with Sheldon George, she edited Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers (2020) . Her articles include: "Freud, Laplanche, Leonardo: Sustaining Enigma" American Imago (2019); "Reinventing the Gothic in Helen Oyeyemi's ' White is for Witching ': Maternal Ethics and Racial Politics," in Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers; "Dislocating the Reader: Slave Motherhood and the Disrupted Temporality of Trauma in Toni Morrison's Beloved ," in The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis (ed.Vera Camden, 2022); and "Mirror Mirror: The Visual Economy of Race in Helen Oyeyemi's Boy, Snow, Bird ," and "Alter Egos in Nella Larsen's Passing and Helen Oyeyemi's Boy, Snow, Bird : Race and Dissociation" for Angelaki. See less