Salvage the Bones
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Salvage the Bones is a National Book Award–winning novel by Jesmyn Ward that follows a poor Black family in rural Mississippi in the days leading up to and following Hurricane Katrina.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Salvage the Bones canonical | 3 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Jesmyn Ward ⓘ |
| awardReceived | National Book Award for Fiction ⓘ |
| awardYear | 2011 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| criticalReception | widely acclaimed ⓘ |
| focusesOn | poor Black family ⓘ |
| genre |
African-American literature
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Southern Gothic ⓘ coming-of-age novel ⓘ literary fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacterRelationship |
Esch is sister of Junior
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Esch is sister of Randall ⓘ Esch is sister of Skeetah ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryAllusion | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
dogfighting
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environmental catastrophe ⓘ teen pregnancy ⓘ |
| includedInList | contemporary American literature syllabi ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Esch
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Junior ⓘ Randall ⓘ Skeetah ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| narratorCharacter | Esch ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of Hurricane Katrina
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portrayal of rural Black life in the American South ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| pageCount | approximately 260 ⓘ |
| protagonistEthnicity | Black ⓘ |
| protagonistGender | female ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2011 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Bloomsbury Publishing
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surface form:
Bloomsbury USA
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| setDuringEvent | Hurricane Katrina ⓘ |
| settingCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| settingLocation | Mississippi ⓘ |
| settingRegion | rural Mississippi ⓘ |
| theme |
family
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masculinity ⓘ motherhood ⓘ natural disasters ⓘ poverty ⓘ race ⓘ resilience ⓘ survival ⓘ |
| timeSpanOfNarrative | days leading up to and following Hurricane Katrina ⓘ |
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jesmyn Ward