Ward’s novel enacts a kind of noticing of what Katherine McKittrick terms Black livingness that is inextricable from more-than-human aliveness.
Drawing from critical race studies, animal studies, feminist science studies, and Black feminist critique, this chapter analyzes Ward’s novel within a climate of anti-Blackness and a climate-changed world. Ward’s novel takes place over twelve days leading up to Hurricane Katrina and the day after. This chapter explores Jesmyn Ward’s novel Salvage the Bones as an enactment of what Claire Jean Kim calls an ethics of avowal of race and animality-in which racialized violence is not conflated with violence toward animals, but rather understood as mutually constitutive and inseparably linked.
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