Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays

Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays
by: Sheri-Marie Harrison (Editor),Arin Keeble(Editor),Maria Elena Torres-Quevedo(Editor)&0more
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Publication Date: August 1, 2023
Language:English
Print Length:368 pages
ISBN-10:1399510614
ISBN-13:9781399510615
Book Description
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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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. Read more