Sweetwater : Black women and narratives of resilience /

Sweetwater : Black women and narratives of resilience /

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Author / Creator:	Boylorn, Robin M., 1978- author.
Edition:	Revised edition.
Imprint:	New York : Peter Lang, [2017]
Description:	xxxii, 214 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Black studies & critical thinking, 1947-5985 ; vol. 100 Black studies & critical thinking ; v. 100.
Subject:	Boylorn, Robin M., -- 1978- -- Childhood and youth. African American women -- Southern States -- Social conditions. Rural women -- Southern States. African American girls -- North Carolina -- Biography. Rural girls -- North Carolina -- Biography. Ethnology -- North Carolina. African Americans -- Poetry. Storytelling -- Social aspects -- North Carolina. Southern States -- Rural conditions. North Carolina -- Rural conditions.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13825572

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ISBN:	9781433134937 1433134934 9781433142222 9781433142239 9781433142246
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	"A multi-generational story of growing up black and female in the rural South. This book captures the artistry, strength, hope, sound, language, and creativity shared by first-hand accounts of black women in a familial village community in North Carolina. Sweetwater is about the black female experience as it relates to friendship, family, spirituality, poverty, education, addiction, mental illness, romantic relationships, raising children, and everyday survival. Written from field notes and memory, the author combines narrative and autoethnography to weave her own experiences as a rural black girl into the story, revealing the complexities of black women's lived experiences and exposing the communicative and interpersonal choices black women make through storytelling. Narrative inquiry and black feminism are offered as creative educational tools for discussing how and why black women's singular interior lives are culturally and globally significant"--Publisher description.

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Call Number:	E185.86.B6496 2017
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