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“Siblings, Kinship and Allegory in Jesmyn Ward’s Fiction and Nonfiction” (2019)
Journal Article
Keeble, A. (2019). “Siblings, Kinship and Allegory in Jesmyn Ward’s Fiction and Nonfiction”. Critique, 61(1), 40-51. https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2019.1663145

This article examines the centrality of sibling relationships in Jesmyn Ward’s fiction and nonfiction, focusing specifically on her second novel Salvage the Bones (2011) and memoir Men We Reaped (2013) but referencing all of her long-form works. It a... Read More about “Siblings, Kinship and Allegory in Jesmyn Ward’s Fiction and Nonfiction”.

Narratives of Hurricane Katrina in Context: Literature, Film and Television (2019)
Book
Keeble, A. (2019). Narratives of Hurricane Katrina in Context: Literature, Film and Television. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16353-2

This book analyzes six key narratives of Hurricane Katrina across literature, film and television from the literary fiction of Jesmyn Ward to the cinema of Spike Lee. It argues that these texts engage with the human tragedy and political fallout of t... Read More about Narratives of Hurricane Katrina in Context: Literature, Film and Television.