Artikel
Salvaging the Bones Means Fighting for Reproductive Justice: Jesmyn Ward’s Literary Representations of the Trauma Produced by Attacks on Reproductive Rights, Comprehensive Sex Education, and Access to Maternal Health Care
Verfasst von:
Foltz, Mary Catherine
in:
2021
,
31-57 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Foltz, Mary Catherine |
| In: | |
| Jahr: | 2021 |
| ISBN: | 3030774090 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| “Salvaging the Bones Means Fighting for Reproductive Justice” argues that Jesmyn Ward’s novel is a pivotal contribution to twenty-first-century discussions of reproductive justice and a powerful challenge to Republican rhetoric and policy that impact Black mothers and their children. Like Black scholars of reproductive justice, the novel critiques medical and governmental institutions that neglect women by limiting access to reproductive health care such as abortion services, prenatal care, and postnatal care, and fostering health care environments that deny Black women’s full humanity and value as mothers. My analysis of maternal death and teen pregnancy in the novel shows how Ward links bodily and psychic trauma to institutional structures that injure Black women and their children. In this way, I reveal how literary works can help readers connect trauma to structural causes and begin to envision social and institutional change. By combining close readings with a discussion of attacks on reproductive health care in the South, I ultimately argue that Ward offers an urgent literary indictment of structures that produce maternal trauma and calls readers to engage with visions of reproductive justice that will allow Black mothers and their children to thrive. | |
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