Jesmyn Ward : new critical essays / edited by Sheri-Marie Harrison, Arin Keeble and Maria Elena Torres-Quevedo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harrison, Sheri-Marie, 1979- editor.

Keeble, Arin, 1977- editor.

Torres-Quevedo, Maria Elena, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ward, Jesmyn--Criticism and interpretation.

Ward, Jesmyn.

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

African Americans in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiii, 354 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"The first substantial and focused critical study of Jesmyn Ward, now one of the most widely read, taught and studied contemporary authors. This collection of essays provides a thorough and probing account of an author who is quickly becoming one of the most read, studied and taught contemporary writers, but whose work remains underrepresented in scholarship. It is broad and ambitious in scope, mirroring the richness of Ward's oeuvre, and it brings together a diverse and dynamic range of approaches that reflect the scholarly conversations in which Ward is embedded"-- $$c Provided by pub

Contents:

Introduction : the restless social vision of Jesmyn Ward / Sheri-Marie Harrison, Arin Keeble and Maria Elena Torres-Quevedo

1. Bois sauvage as biotope in the novels of Jesmyn Ward / Wendy McMahon

2. Wayward kinship and malleable intimacies / Jay N. Shelat

3. Determination in the wake of dispossession : Jesmyn Ward's literary depiction of Black resistance to outmigration / Donald Brown

4. Local and global scales of racial neoliberalism in Where the Line Bleeds / Martyn Bone

5. Mapping the "ungeographic" in Jesmyn Ward's Where the Line Bleeds / Beth Beatrice Smith

6. Salvaging vulnerabilities : climate crisis and marginalised bodies in Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones / Leah Van Dyck

7. "We are left to seed another year" : nature and neglect in Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones / Devon Anderson

8. The weather and the wake : maternal embodiment and peril in Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones / Zsuzsanna Lénárt-Muszka

9. "Something to save" : rewriting Black teenage motherhood in Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones / Chiara Margiotta

10. Being touched by cloth : imprints on community, body and self / Melanie Petch

11. "Life had promised me something when I was younger" : biopolitics and the rags to riches narrative in Jesmyn Ward's Men We Reaped / Maria Elena Torres-Quevedo

12. Releasing the heavy repercussions of Black death in Jesmyn Ward's Men We Reaped / Candice N. Hale

13. A prophetic tension : bearing witness against Black nihilism in Jesmyn Ward's Men We Reaped / Mary McCampbell

14. "Something like praying" : syncretic spirituality and racial justice in Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing / Lucy Arnold

15. Ghosts in Mississippi : Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing / Christopher Lloyd

16. Experiencing the environment from the car : human and more-than-human road trippers in Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing / Michelle Stork

17. Reclaiming the ghosts of trauma's past : witnessing and testimony as healing in Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing / Apryl Lewis

18. Carceral ecologies : incarceration and hydrological haunting in Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing / Cydney Phillip

19. Pilgrimages to the past in Jesmyn Ward and Toni Morrison / Lara Narcisi

20. "I need the story to go" : Sing, Unburied, Sing, Afropessimism and Black narratives of redemption / Marco Petrelli

Afterword : "The most beautiful song" : Jesmyn Ward and diasporic recognition / Sheri-Marie Harrison.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1399510614

9781399510615

OCLC:

1375058772