In its own allusive way, Helen Oyeyemi’s Gingerbread considers the imminent departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union. A textbook in ...

Courtney Thorsson
Courtney Thorsson is an associate professor of English at the University of Oregon, where she teaches, studies, and writes about African American literature. She is the author of Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women’s Novels (University of Virginia Press, 2013), and her essays have appeared in Callaloo, African American Review, MELUS, Contemporary Literature, and elsewhere. She is currently completing a book about Black women’s literary networks and activism in New York in the late 1970s.