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Chapter 2 focuses on the dramatic monologues of Valerie Bloom, Jean “Binta” Breeze, and Amryl Johnson in the late 1980s and mid 1990s. In the aftermath of the radicalism of Black British feminist organizations in the 1970s, the politics of dissent remained an abiding force both in racialized feminism and in Black British women’s poetry. Bloom’s personae take on different postures towards Black feminist politics in Touch Mi! Tell Mi!. In Riddym Ravings, Breeze writes “meta-monologues” to take on the voice of marginalized, socially alienated, often psychically disturbed Black female figures. In contrast, Amryl Johnson composes a “multiple monologue” in Gorgons, which adapts the myth of Medusa in a contemporary context. While these authors certainly do not provide a blueprint for Black feminist praxis, their dramatic monologues voice dissent as constitutive of any racial politics of solidarity as an open-ended problem and unfinished process.

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