Demonic grounds : Black women and the cartographies of struggle / Katherine McKittrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKittrick, Katherine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women, Black--America--Social conditions.

Women, Black.

African diaspora.

Human geography--America.

Human geography.

Geography--Psychological aspects.

Geography.

Slavery--America--History.

Slavery.

Enslaved women--America--History.

Enslaved women.

Women, Black--America--Political activity.

Women, Black, in literature.

America--Race relations.

America.

America--Geography--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.

Summary:

Demonic Grounds moves between past and present, archives and fiction, theory and everyday, to focus on places negotiated by black women during and after the transatlantic slave trade. Specifically, Katherine McKittrick addresses the geographic implications of slave auction blocks, Harriet Jacobs's attic, black Canada and New France, as well as the conceptual spaces of feminism and Sylvia Wynter's philosophies.

Contents:

Introduction : geographic stories

I lost an arm on my last trip home : Black geographies

The last place they thought of : Black women's geographies

The authenticity of this story has not been documented : auction blocks

Nothing's shocking : Black Canada

Demonic grounds : Sylvia Wynter

Conclusion : stay human.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9794-9

OCLC:

476096003