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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...

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Published in:Mississippi Quarterly Vol. 77; no. 3; pp. 261 - 283
Main Author: Rambo, Stephanie
Format: Article
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2025
Subjects:
Artistic influence
Crocheting
Data analytics
Quilts
Black women
Quilting
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