Date of Award
Spring 2021
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Nijah Cunningham
Second Advisor
Janet Neary
Academic Program Adviser
Janet Neary
Abstract
This essay examines the ways in which author Jesmyn Ward guides her reader in reimagining a small Mississippi town in her novel Where the Line Bleeds (2008) by uncovering the antagonisms and ambivalences found in the Dirty South and reflecting on the physical and interior geography of her characters.
Recommended Citation
Smith, Beth B., "Mapping the “Ungeographic” in Jesmyn Ward’s Where the Line Bleeds" (2021). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/707