![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ward draws parallels between Leonie and Michael's interracial marriage with forced relationships between colonizers and the colonized or enslaved in Southern history. In addition, Ward highlights the region's inextricable ties to its own history of slavery and colonialism. Leonie and Misty tap into the economy of drug production due to their own addiction and the lack of other employment opportunities. In greater detail, the story highlights how an environment's rurality can breed scarcity for its inhabitants. While Ward's previous novel, Salvage the Bones, centered around the gulf coast region post-Hurricane Katrina, Sing, Unburied, Sing also briefly mentions this natural disaster. Ward seeks to highlight how the environment of this gulf coast region breeds a certain sense of vulnerability that is palpable for the characters. The characters in Sing, Unburied, Sing are depicted hunting in the woods, lounging around the large oak trees, and frequenting the gulf shores and bayous. Ward infuses the novel with a swampy, rural ecology largely based on DeLisle. While Bois Sauvage, the setting for Sing, Unburied, Sing, is a fictional town, it is largely inspired by the region in which Ward grew up. DeLisle is a part of the Gulfport-Biloxi metropolitan area, and it is a small town of around one thousand residents. Jesmyn Ward, the author of Sing, Unburied, Sing, grew up in DeLisle, Mississippi during the 1980s. ![]()
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