Fatalism Knowledge and Inquiry in African American Family Stories of Death Premonition

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gertrude Jacinta Fraser
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Family ◽  
American Family ◽  
Family Stories

scholarly journals Biblical Echoes and Communal Home in Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones

2021 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 91-107
Author(s):  
Vicent Cucarella-Ramon
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
African American Family ◽  
The Novel ◽  
American Family ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
National Space ◽  
Familial Bonds ◽  
Communal Healing

Jesmyn Ward’s second novel, Salvage the Bones (2011), offers a literary account of an African American family in dire poverty struggling to weather the horrors of Hurricane Katrina on the outskirts of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi. This article focuses on the novel’s ‘ideology of form’, which is premised on biblical models of narration —grounded on a literary transposition of The Book of Deuteronomy— that serves to portray the victimization of African Americans in mythical tones to evoke the country’s failed covenant between God and his chosen people. It also brings into focus the affective bonds of unity and communal healing relying on the idiosyncratic tenet of home understood as national space— following Winthrop’s foundational ideology. As I will argue, the novel contends that the revamped concept of communal home and familial bonds —echoing Winthrop’s emblem of national belonging— recasts the trope of biblical refuge as a potential tenet to foster selfassertion and to rethink the limits of belonging and acceptance.

scholarly journals Non-anemic homozygous ?o thalassemia in an African-American family: Association of high fetal hemoglobin levels with ? thalassemia alleles

2001 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-50
Author(s):  
Vladimir Divoky ◽  
Michal Mrug ◽  
Denyse Thornley-Brown ◽  
Martina Divoka ◽  
Josef T. Prchal
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Fetal Hemoglobin ◽  
African American Family ◽  
American Family

scholarly journals Regulatory variant in FZD 6 gene contributes to nonsyndromic cleft lip and palate in an African‐American family

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 440-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nevena Cvjetkovic ◽  
Lorena Maili ◽  
Katelyn S. Weymouth ◽  
S. Shahrukh Hashmi ◽  
John B. Mulliken ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Cleft Lip ◽  
Cleft Lip And Palate ◽  
African American Family ◽  
American Family ◽  
Regulatory Variant
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