Secondary reading folder
You'll find an excellent interview with Evaristo (among many others) here.
Attached below are a number of useful articles, including Kimberlé Crenshaw's 'Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex' (1989), a key article in the emergence of theories of 'intersectionality'.
Via the TB4 catalogue, you also have access to a number of excellent articles, including Cédric Courtois' "Bernardine Evaristo’s ‘Black’ British Amazons: Aesthetics and Politics in Girl, Woman, Other (2019)", Études britanniques contemporaines, 60 (2021).
If you have time please read the two prefaces of Butler's Gender Trouble, plus the material from p. 163-end: this sets out Butler's theory of gender performativity. You can find excellent introductions to the concept, as it relates to 'identity' more generally,
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. The concept of the 'performativity' and the 'fluidity' of identity is absolutely central to Evaristo's novel.