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by Sheri-Marie Harrison (Editor), Arin Keeble (Editor), Maria Elena Torres-Quevedo (Editor)
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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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.
Author Biography
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 at Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland. His most recent book is Narratives of Hurricane Katrina in Context (2019) and his essays can be found in Journal of American Studies, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Parallax, Post45 Contemporaries, Comparative American Studies, European Journal of American Culture, Canadian Review of American Studies, the Times Literary Supplement and in collections including The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction, The City in American Literature and Culture and The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature.
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
