Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays

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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
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