Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays

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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Frontmatter
pp i-iv
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Contributors
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Introduction: The Restless Social Vision of Jesmyn Ward
pp 1-12
- By Sheri-Marie Harrison, Arin Keeble, Maria Elena Torres-Quevedo
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Chapter 1 - Bois Sauvage as Biotope in the Novels of Jesmyn Ward
pp 13-26
- By Wendy McMahon
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Chapter 2 - Wayward Kinship and Malleable Intimacies
pp 27-42
- By Jay N. Shelat
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Chapter 3 - Determination in the Wake of Dispossession: Jesmyn Ward’s Literary Depiction of Black Resistance to Outmigration
pp 43-62
- By Donald Brown
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Chapter 4 - Local and Global Scales of Racial Neoliberalism in Where the Line Bleeds
pp 63-78
- By Martyn Bone
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Chapter 5 - Mapping the ‘Ungeographic’ in Jesmyn Ward’s Where the Line Bleeds
pp 79-94
- By Beth Beatrice Smith
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Chapter 6 - Salvaging Vulnerabilities: Climate Crisis and Marginalised Bodies in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones
pp 95-109
- By Leah Van Dyk
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Chapter 7 - ‘We are left to seed another year’: Nature and Neglect in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones
pp 110-124
- By Devon Anderson
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Chapter 8 - The Weather and the Wake: Maternal Embodiment and Peril in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones
pp 125-140
- By Zsuzsanna Lénárt-Muszka
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Chapter 9 - ‘Something to save’: Rewriting Black Teenage Motherhood in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones
pp 141-153
- By Chiara Margiotta
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Chapter 10 - Being Touched by Cloth: Imprints on Community, Body and Self
pp 154-168
- By Melanie Petch
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Chapter 11 - ‘Life had promised me something when I was younger’: Biopolitics and the Rags to Riches Narrative in Jesmyn Ward’s Men We Reaped
pp 169-188
- By Maria Elena Torres-Quevedo
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Chapter 12 - Releasing the Heavy Repercussions of Black Death in Jesmyn Ward’s Men We Reaped
pp 189-206
- By Candice N. Hale
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Chapter 13 - A Prophetic Tension: Bearing Witness Against Black Nihilism in Jesmyn Ward’s Men We Reaped
pp 207-222
- By Mary McCampbell
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Chapter 14 - ‘Something like praying’: Syncretic Spirituality and Racial Justice in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
pp 223-239
- By Lucy Arnold
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Chapter 15 - Ghosts in Mississippi: Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
pp 240-253
- By Christopher Lloyd
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Chapter 16 - Experiencing the Environment from the Car: Human and More-than-Human Road Trippers in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
pp 254-273
- By Michelle Stork
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Chapter 17 - Reclaiming the Ghosts of Trauma’s Past: Witnessing and Testimony as Healing in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
pp 274-288
- By Apryl Lewis
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Chapter 18 - Carceral Ecologies: Incarceration and Hydrological Haunting in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
pp 289-303
- By Cydney Phillip
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Chapter 19 - Pilgrimages to the Past in Jesmyn Ward and Toni Morrison
pp 304-318
- By Lara Narcisi
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Chapter 20 - ‘I need the story to go’: Sing, Unburied, Sing, Afropessimism and Black Narratives of Redemption
pp 319-336
- By Marco Petrelli
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Afterword - ‘The most beautiful song’: Jesmyn Ward and Diasporic Recognition
pp 337-344
- By Sheri-Marie Harrison
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Index
pp 345-354
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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vii

Contributors
pp viii-xiv

Introduction: The Restless Social Vision of Jesmyn Ward
pp 1-12

Chapter 1 - Bois Sauvage as Biotope in the Novels of Jesmyn Ward
pp 13-26

Chapter 2 - Wayward Kinship and Malleable Intimacies
pp 27-42

Chapter 3 - Determination in the Wake of Dispossession: Jesmyn Ward’s Literary Depiction of Black Resistance to Outmigration
pp 43-62

Chapter 4 - Local and Global Scales of Racial Neoliberalism in Where the Line Bleeds
pp 63-78

Chapter 5 - Mapping the ‘Ungeographic’ in Jesmyn Ward’s Where the Line Bleeds
pp 79-94

Chapter 6 - Salvaging Vulnerabilities: Climate Crisis and Marginalised Bodies in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones
pp 95-109

Chapter 7 - ‘We are left to seed another year’: Nature and Neglect in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones
pp 110-124

Chapter 8 - The Weather and the Wake: Maternal Embodiment and Peril in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones
pp 125-140

Chapter 9 - ‘Something to save’: Rewriting Black Teenage Motherhood in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones
pp 141-153

Chapter 10 - Being Touched by Cloth: Imprints on Community, Body and Self
pp 154-168

Chapter 11 - ‘Life had promised me something when I was younger’: Biopolitics and the Rags to Riches Narrative in Jesmyn Ward’s Men We Reaped
pp 169-188

Chapter 12 - Releasing the Heavy Repercussions of Black Death in Jesmyn Ward’s Men We Reaped
pp 189-206

Chapter 13 - A Prophetic Tension: Bearing Witness Against Black Nihilism in Jesmyn Ward’s Men We Reaped
pp 207-222

Chapter 14 - ‘Something like praying’: Syncretic Spirituality and Racial Justice in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
pp 223-239

Chapter 15 - Ghosts in Mississippi: Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
pp 240-253

Chapter 16 - Experiencing the Environment from the Car: Human and More-than-Human Road Trippers in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
pp 254-273

Chapter 17 - Reclaiming the Ghosts of Trauma’s Past: Witnessing and Testimony as Healing in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
pp 274-288

Chapter 18 - Carceral Ecologies: Incarceration and Hydrological Haunting in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
pp 289-303

Chapter 19 - Pilgrimages to the Past in Jesmyn Ward and Toni Morrison
pp 304-318

Chapter 20 - ‘I need the story to go’: Sing, Unburied, Sing, Afropessimism and Black Narratives of Redemption
pp 319-336

Afterword - ‘The most beautiful song’: Jesmyn Ward and Diasporic Recognition
pp 337-344

Index
pp 345-354

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