Jesmyn Ward : New Critical Essays / edited by Sheri-Marie Harrison, Arin Keeble, and Maria Elena Torres-Quevedo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harrison, Sheri-Marie, editor.

Keeble, Arin, editor.

Torres-Quevedo, Maria Elena, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

England : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2023]

Summary:

The first substantial and focused critical study of Jesmyn Ward, now one of the most widely read, taught and studied contemporary authors.

Contents:

Intro

Half-Title

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

Introduction: The Restless Social Vision of Jesmyn Ward

1. Bois Sauvage as Biotope in the Novels of Jesmyn Ward

2. Wayward Kinship and Malleable Intimacies

3. Determination in the Wake of Dispossession: Jesmyn Ward's Literary Depiction of Black Resistance to Outmigration

4. Local and Global Scales of Racial Neoliberalism in Where the Line Bleeds

5. Mapping the 'Ungeographic' in Jesmyn Ward's Where the Line Bleeds

6. Salvaging Vulnerabilities: Climate Crisis and Marginalised Bodies in Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones

7. 'We are left to seed another year': Nature and Neglect in Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones

8. The Weather and the Wake: Maternal Embodiment and Peril in Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones

9. 'Something to save': Rewriting Black Teenage Motherhood in Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones

10. Being Touched by Cloth: Imprints on Community, Body and Self

11. 'Life had promised me something when I was younger': Biopolitics and the Rags to Riches Narrative in Jesmyn Ward's Men We Reaped

12. Releasing the Heavy Repercussions of Black Death in Jesmyn Ward's Men We Reaped

13. A Prophetic Tension: Bearing Witness Against Black Nihilism in Jesmyn Ward's Men We Reaped

14. 'Something like praying': Syncretic Spirituality and Racial Justice in Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing

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

16. Experiencing the Environment from the Car: Human and More-than-Human Road Trippers in Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing

17. Reclaiming the Ghosts of Trauma's Past: Witnessing and Testimony as Healing in Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing

18. Carceral Ecologies: Incarceration and Hydrological Haunting in Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing.

19. Pilgrimages to the Past in Jesmyn Ward and Toni Morrison

20. 'I need the story to go': Sing, Unburied, Sing, Afropessimism and Black Narratives of Redemption

Afterword. 'The most beautiful song': Jesmyn Ward and Diasporic Recognition

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Harrison, Sheri-Marie. Jesmyn Ward.

ISBN:

1-3995-1063-0