Sweetwater : black women and narratives of resilience /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
P. Lang,
[2013]
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| Series: | Black studies & critical thinking ;
v. 43. |
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| Summary: | 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.--Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | xxi, 129 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-129). |
| ISBN: | 9781433117763 1433117762 9781433117756 1433117754 9781453908778 1453908773 |
| ISSN: | 1947-5985 ; |