Sweetwater Black Women and Narratives of Resilience

Name: Sweetwater Black Women and Narratives of Resilience
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ISBN: 9781433117756

ISBN-10: 1433117754

ISBN-13: 9781433117756

Edition: 2013

Authors: Rochelle Brock, Richard Greggory Johnson III, Robin M. Boylorn

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Sweetwater: Black Women and Narratives of Resilience" is 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…

Book details

List price: $47.65
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Peter Lang AG International Academic Publishers
Publication date: 12/28/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 129
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.86" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Series Editor's Preface



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Prologue: Telling


Introduction: The Call for a Rural Black Woman's Story


List of Main Characters



(Daily) Bread





Window Poem: "Business"





Window Poem: "Patience"





Window Poem: "Cake"





Window Poem: "Moon Looks White"





Window Poem: "Long and Hard"





Window Poem: "Daddy"





Window Poem: "Passin'"





Interlude: Porch Premonitions



(Robin) Bird





Window Poem: "Fireflies"





Window Poem: "Waiting to See"





Window Poem: "It Hurt To Be Called Black"





Window Poem: "Beauty Marks"





Window Poem: "Love Me Tender"





Window Poem: "I Feel Saved"





Window Poem: "Poem for Mama's Father"





Conclusion: Why These Stories Matter


Appendix: Methodology


Postscript


Bibliography