Martyn Bone

Broschiertes Buch

The Writings of Jesmyn Ward

Matters of Black Southern Life and Death

Beschreibung

This book considers the full range of Jesmyn Ward's career thus far. Martyn Bone examines key themes running throughout Ward's writing: Black life in the U.S. South; the legacies of slavery and segregation; neoliberalism as the contemporary form of capitalism; environmental crisis in the Anthropocene; and human-animal relations. Bone also connects Ward's work to major figures in the U.S. literary canon, with particular focus on William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Toni Morrison.

Autor

Martyn Bone is associate professor of American literature at the University of Copenhagen. He is author of Where the New World Is: Literature about the U.S. South at Global Scales and The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction.

Produktdetails

• New American Canon
• Verlag: University of Iowa Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 398g
• ISBN-13: 9781685970185
• ISBN-10: 1685970184
• Artikelnr.: 73350389