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

Author
McKittrick, Katherine [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2006]
Description
1 online resource (xxxi, 190 pages) : illustrations, maps

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Summary note
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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-185) and index.
Source of description
Print version record.
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.
ISBN
  • 9780816697946 ((electronic bk.))
  • 0816697949 ((electronic bk.))
  • 9780816647019 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
  • 0816647011 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
  • 9780816647026 ((paperback ; : alk. paper))
  • 081664702X ((paperback ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2005035148
OCLC
78051840
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