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Introduction: The Restless Social Vision of Jesmyn Ward
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This introduction begins with a close reading of Ward’s 2020 Vanity Fair essay ‘On Witness and Respair: A Personal Tragedy Followed by a Pandemic’, to highlight the qualities that make Ward’s voice and work so compelling and important. We characterise this voice as restless and searching, pointing out that while there are clearly features that bind her novels, memoir, and essays together, their very different genre codings and stylistic features distinguish each of these writings. We discuss the key social, political and cultural contexts and contemporary theoretical paradigms related to Ward’s writing and conclude with some commentary on Men We Reaped and Sing, Unburied, Sing, that draws these together before finally outlining the book’s chapters.
Edinburgh University Press
Title: Introduction: The Restless Social Vision of Jesmyn Ward
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This introduction begins with a close reading of Ward’s 2020 Vanity Fair essay ‘On Witness and Respair: A Personal Tragedy Followed by a Pandemic’, to highlight the qualities that make Ward’s voice and work so compelling and important.
We characterise this voice as restless and searching, pointing out that while there are clearly features that bind her novels, memoir, and essays together, their very different genre codings and stylistic features distinguish each of these writings.
We discuss the key social, political and cultural contexts and contemporary theoretical paradigms related to Ward’s writing and conclude with some commentary on Men We Reaped and Sing, Unburied, Sing, that draws these together before finally outlining the book’s chapters.
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