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Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays (2023)
Book
Harrison, S., Keeble, A., & Torres-Quevedo, M. E. (Eds.). (2023). Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

The first substantial and focused critical study of Jesmyn Ward, now one of the most widely read, taught and studied contemporary authors. It includes a co-authored introduction, twenty chapters and ‘Afterword’, moves beyond existing Ward scholarship... Read More about Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays.

The End of the 90s in Porochista Khakpour's The Last Illusion, Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room and Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2022)
Journal Article
Keeble, A. (2023). The End of the 90s in Porochista Khakpour's The Last Illusion, Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room and Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 64(4), 685-698. https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2022.2078179

This article argues that three contemporary novels – Porochista Khakpour's The Last Illusion (2014), Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room (2017), and Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018) – offer correctives to prevalent histories of the... Read More about The End of the 90s in Porochista Khakpour's The Last Illusion, Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room and Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation.

From Trauma Theory to Systemic Violence: Narratives of Post-Katrina New Orleans (2021)
Book Chapter
Keeble, A. (2021). From Trauma Theory to Systemic Violence: Narratives of Post-Katrina New Orleans. In K. R. McNamara (Ed.), The City in American Literature and Culture (276-292). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

This chapter begins with a discussion of some of the contemporary critiques that have been aimed at trauma theory, focussing specifically on the way writing by Lauren Berlant and Rob Nixon has urged us to attend to systemic and/or slow violence. It a... Read More about From Trauma Theory to Systemic Violence: Narratives of Post-Katrina New Orleans.

The Implicated Neoliberal Subject in Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge (2021)
Journal Article
Stacy, I., & Keeble, A. (2022). The Implicated Neoliberal Subject in Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge. Journal of American Studies, 56(2), 320-347. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002187582100058X

This article argues that in Bleeding Edge, Pynchon moves from an oppositional schema in which the world is divided into elect and preterite populations towards one that is concerned with implication and complicity. The article uses Michael Rothberg '... Read More about The Implicated Neoliberal Subject in Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge.

“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.

The 9/11 Novel (2018)
Book Chapter
Keeble, A. (2018). The 9/11 Novel. In The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction, (273-286). London: Taylor & Francis

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Bleeding Edge, Neo-Liberalism, and the 9/11 Novel. (2018)
Journal Article
Keeble, A. (2019). Bleeding Edge, Neo-Liberalism, and the 9/11 Novel. Canadian Review of American Studies, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.3138/cras.2017.028

This article argues that Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge (2013) can be read within the canon of 9/11 novels in unexpected and productive ways. Its rich, intertwined narrative of the Internet and 9/11 both echoes early 9/11 novels and departs from the... Read More about Bleeding Edge, Neo-Liberalism, and the 9/11 Novel..

Interview with Tim Irwin, Director of We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005) and Don’t Break Down: A Film about Jawbreaker (2017) (2017)
Journal Article
Keeble, A. (2017). Interview with Tim Irwin, Director of We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005) and Don’t Break Down: A Film about Jawbreaker (2017). Punk and Post Punk, 6(1), 157-162. https://doi.org/10.1386/punk.6.1.157_7

This interview was conducted over Skype on 26 March 2017. I contacted Tim Irwin for an interview with two main goals in mind. First, I was hoping for insight into his new film about Jawbreaker, Don’t Break Down: A Film about Jawbreaker (2017), and se... Read More about Interview with Tim Irwin, Director of We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005) and Don’t Break Down: A Film about Jawbreaker (2017).

Blake Schwarzenbach and the anxieties of American punk rock: 1991–present (2016)
Journal Article
Keeble, A. (2016). Blake Schwarzenbach and the anxieties of American punk rock: 1991–present. Punk and Post Punk, 5(3), 295-310. https://doi.org/10.1386/punk.5.3.295_1

This article argues that Blake Schwarzenbach was a pivotal figure in the evolution of American punk from the early 1990s. Schwarzenbach’s journey as a punk figure has exemplified some of the interconnected ‘anxieties’ of this period relating to punk... Read More about Blake Schwarzenbach and the anxieties of American punk rock: 1991–present.

Won’t bow: Don’t know how: Treme, New Orleans and American exceptionalism (2016)
Journal Article
Keeble, A. (2016). Won’t bow: Don’t know how: Treme, New Orleans and American exceptionalism. European Journal of American Culture, 35(1), 51-67. https://doi.org/10.1386/ejac.35.1.51_1

This article examines the depiction of exceptionalism in David Simon and Eric Overmeyer’s television series, Treme, and argues that the series uses its New Orleans microcosm to articulate wider points about American society. It begins with the unlike... Read More about Won’t bow: Don’t know how: Treme, New Orleans and American exceptionalism.

The Aggregation of Political Rhetoric in Zeitoun (2014)
Journal Article
Keeble, A. (2014). The Aggregation of Political Rhetoric in Zeitoun. Comparative American Studies, 12(3), 173-189. https://doi.org/10.1179/1477570014Z.00000000081

While the initial literary and cultural response to 9/11 consisted mostly of domestic narratives of trauma and mourning that avoided explicit political discourse, narrative representations of Hurricane Katrina, from the beginning, have been highly po... Read More about The Aggregation of Political Rhetoric in Zeitoun.

Joseph O'Neil's Netherland and 9/11 Fiction (2012)
Journal Article
Keeble, A. (2012). Joseph O'Neil's Netherland and 9/11 Fiction. European Journal of American Culture, 31(1), 55-71. https://doi.org/10.1386/ejac.31.1.55_1

This article argues that Joseph O’Neil’s Netherland (2008) self-consciously addresses some of the problematic aspects of the emerging canon of ‘9/11 fiction’. Netherland subverts one of the dominant thematic rubrics of the canon, marriage and relatio... Read More about Joseph O'Neil's Netherland and 9/11 Fiction.