{"product_id":"jesmyn-ward-new-critical-essays-9781399510615","title":"Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSheri-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 \u003ci\u003eNegotiating Sovereignty in Postcolonial Jamaican Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (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 \u003ci\u003eRoutledge Companion to the Novel\u003c\/i\u003e (forthcoming 2024). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArin Keeble is a Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland. His research interests include the literary and cultural representation of terrorism, crisis, neoliberalism and systemic violence. He is co-editor of \u003ci\u003eJesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays\u003c\/i\u003e (2023) and is the author of \u003ci\u003eNarratives of Hurricane Katrina in Context\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), and his writing appears in journals such as \u003ci\u003eCritique\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJournal of American Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePost45\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eParallax\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePunk and Post-Punk\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaria 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50488026464530,"sku":"9781399510615","price":146.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9930f51e-1d68-4e31-b9cb-469645ef430d.jpg?v=1751362531","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/jesmyn-ward-new-critical-essays-9781399510615","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}