Telling it Slant: Critical Approaches to Helen Oyeyemi

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Cover Artist’s Statement
Introduction
Chloé Buckley and Sarah Ilott
1 Witches, Fox-Fairies, Foreign Bodies: Inflections Subjectivity in White Is for Witching and Mr Fox of
David Punter
2 Gothic Children in Boy, Snow, Bird, The Opposite House, and The Icarus Girl
Chloé Buckley
3 ‘Nobody ever warned me about mirrors’: Doubling, Mimesis, and Narrative Form in Helen Oyeyemi’s Fiction
Natalya Din-Kariuki
4 ‘Why do people go to these places, these places that are not for them?’: (De)constructing Borders in White Is for Witching and The Opposite House
Katie Burton
5 Sensory Signification in Juniper’s Whitening and Victimese
Nicola Abram
6 The Monsters in the Margins: Intersectionality in Oyeyemi’s Works
Anita Harris Satkunananthan
7 ‘The genesis of woman goes through the mouth’: Consumption, Oral pleasure, and Voice in The Opposite House and White Is for Witching
Sarah Ilott
8 ‘People can smile and smile and still be villains’: Villains and Victims in Mr Fox and Boy, Snow, Bird
Jo Ormond
9 As White as Red as Black as . . . Beauty, Race and Gender in the Tales of Helen Oyeyemi, Angela Carter and Barbara Comyns
Helen Cousins
Conclusions
Chloé Buckley and Sarah Ilott
The Editors and Contributors
Index
About Sussex Academic Press