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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Jesmyn Ward"”.
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“The Sunlit Prison of the American Dream”: Representing Carcerality in Contemporary American Fiction
… carcerality in slavery through selected works by Jesmyn Ward and Colson Whitehead, exploring how the genre of the slave narrative was shaped by its historical context and how it has influenced contemporary writing about prisons. I then discuss the impact of incarceration on family units, as seen …
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Re-Imagining America: Twenty-First Century Disaster And Salvation In Contemporary Fiction
… they contain. Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones tell stories of disasters the natures of which reflect prominent anxieties concerning the twenty-first century position of the United States as a global power. The total destruction leaving behind an unrecognizable …
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Reframing as Reclamation: Trauma Theory, African Spiritualism, and Ecocriticism in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
… ecocriticism and trauma theory intersect within Jesmyn Ward’s novel <em>Sing, Unburied, Sing </em>(2017) to tackle the complex act of collective healing. Trauma, and its subset transgenerational trauma, have often been a focal point for critical analysis of other African American texts that …
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Autobiographical subjects: Disability and social identity in life writing
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Finding Identity Through Survival: The Impact of the Hurricanes in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones
… <em>Their Eyes Were Watching God </em>and Jesmyn Ward’s <em>Salvage the Bones</em>. In both novels, the authors use the imagery of setting combined with the characterization of poor women of color in order to emphasize both the effects of environmental disaster on vulnerable communities and …