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

by Martyn Bone

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1685970184
• ISBN13: 9781685970185
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"