Gebundenes Buch

Jesmyn Ward

New Critical Essays

Herausgeber: Harrison, Sheri-Marie; Torres-Quevedo, Maria Elena; Keeble, Arin

Beschreibung

The first book-length study on the writings of two-time National Book Award-winning author Jesmyn Ward This collection of essays provides a comprehensive account of an author who is quickly becoming one of the most read, studied and taught contemporary writers. Ward's treatment of contemporary Black life in the US and her commitment to community and care through the exploration of historical and present-day violence resonates in other Black and marginalised communities the world over and is central to what makes Ward an urgent, critically important voice in contemporary literary studies. This volume responds to the depth and resonance of Ward's writing, which to date includes three novels, a memoir, an edited collection of essays and a set of personal essays. 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. Sheri-Marie Harrison is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri. Arin Keeble is a Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at Edinburgh Napier University. Maria Elena Torres-Quevedo is a trade union organiser based in Edinburgh.

Autor

Sheri-Marie Harrison is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri, where she researches and teaches Contemporary literature and mass culture of the African Diaspora and directs the Individualized Degrees program. She is the author of Negotiating Sovereignty in Postcolonial Jamaican Literature (2014). Among her ongoing projects is an author study of Marlon James, a monograph on genre in Contemporary Black fiction. She is also a co-editor for the Routledge Companion to the Novel (forthcoming 2024). Arin Keeble is a Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland. His research interests include the literary and cultural representation of terrorism, crisis, neoliberalism and systemic violence. He is co-editor of Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays (2023) and is the author of Narratives of Hurricane Katrina in Context (2019), and his writing appears in journals such as Critique, Journal of American Studies, Post45, Parallax, Punk and Post-Punk, and TLS. Maria Elena Torres-Quevedo is a trade union organiser based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She received her PhD from Edinburgh University in 2021. Her dissertation focused on contemporary American women's autobiographies and posthumanism

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 694g
• ISBN-13: 9781399510615
• ISBN-10: 1399510614
• Artikelnr.: 67743282