Telling the Storm: Quilting Analytics, Crochet, and Remembering Hurricane Katrina in Salvage the Bones.
This essay examines Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones (2011) and how the protagonist Esch Batiste remembers Hurricane Katrina through quilting analytics and crochet. Quilting is a creative practice and form of storytelling in Black women's culture and literary tradition. Ward signifies and extends the...
| Publicado en: | Mississippi Quarterly Vol. 77; no. 3; pp. 261 - 283 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2025
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