Bois Sauvage as biotope in the novels of Jesmyn Ward

Wendy McMahon

Bois Sauvage as biotope in the novels of Jesmyn Ward

Wendy McMahon

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays
Editors	Sheri-Marie Harrison, Arin Keeble, Maria Elena Torres-Quevedo
Publisher	Edinburgh University Press
Chapter	1
ISBN (Print)	9781399510615
Publication status	Published - Aug 2023

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