Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays

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Jesmyn Ward

New Critical Essays

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Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2023

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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.

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Literary Studies Literary Studies, general

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Contributors
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Introduction: The Restless Social Vision of Jesmyn Ward
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Sheri-Marie Harrison, Arin Keeble and Maria Elena Torres-Quevedo

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

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2. Wayward Kinship and Malleable Intimacies
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Jay N. Shelat

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

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

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5. Mapping the ‘Ungeographic’ in Jesmyn Ward’s Where the Line Bleeds
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Beth Beatrice Smith

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6. Salvaging Vulnerabilities: Climate Crisis and Marginalised Bodies in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones
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Leah Van Dyk

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

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8. The Weather and the Wake: Maternal Embodiment and Peril in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones
125
Zsuzsanna Lénárt-Muszka

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9. ‘Something to save’: Rewriting Black Teenage Motherhood in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones
141
Chiara Margiotta

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10. Being Touched by Cloth: Imprints on Community, Body and Self
154
Melanie Petch

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11. ‘Life had promised me something when I was younger’: Biopolitics and the Rags to Riches Narrative in Jesmyn Ward’s Men We Reaped
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Maria Elena Torres-Quevedo

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12. Releasing the Heavy Repercussions of Black Death in Jesmyn Ward’s Men We Reaped
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Candice N. Hale

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13. A Prophetic Tension: Bearing Witness Against Black Nihilism in Jesmyn Ward’s Men We Reaped
207
Mary McCampbell

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14. ‘Something like praying’: Syncretic Spirituality and Racial Justice in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
223
Lucy Arnold

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15. Ghosts in Mississippi: Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
240
Christopher Lloyd

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16. Experiencing the Environment from the Car: Human and More-than-Human Road Trippers in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
254
Michelle Stork

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17. Reclaiming the Ghosts of Trauma’s Past: Witnessing and Testimony as Healing in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
274
Apryl Lewis

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18. Carceral Ecologies: Incarceration and Hydrological Haunting in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
289
Cydney Phillip

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19. Pilgrimages to the Past in Jesmyn Ward and Toni Morrison
304
Lara Narcisi

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20. ‘I need the story to go’: Sing, Unburied, Sing, Afropessimism and Black Narratives of Redemption
319
Marco Petrelli

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Afterword. ‘The most beautiful song’: Jesmyn Ward and Diasporic Recognition
337
Sheri-Marie Harrison

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Index
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Literary Studies

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Edinburgh University Press

Jesmyn Ward

Overview

About this book

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

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

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