When Cars Become Churches: Jesmyn Ward's Disenchanted America. An Interview

2015/12/08 by Anna Hartnell · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Race, History, and American Society

paper · doi:10.1017/s0021875815001966

openalex publication_date 2015/12/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/23

Abstract

This interview with Jesmyn Ward, conducted in November 2013, takes as its starting point the publication of her memoir, Men We Reaped . It explores the role of her writing in the context of Hurricane Katrina, the US South, African American culture and identity, and new trends in twenty-first-century US writing.

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