The Writings of Jesmyn Ward - Matters of Black Southern Life and Death

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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Martyn Bone
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2025
• EAN: 9781685970185
• ISBN: 978-1-68597-018-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: New American Canon
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies