1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451624703321

Autore

McKittrick Katherine

Titolo

Demonic grounds [[electronic resource] ] : Black women and the cartographies of struggle / / Katherine McKittrick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2006

ISBN

0-8166-9794-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Disciplina

305.48/89607009

Soggetti

Women, Black - America - Social conditions

African diaspora

Human geography - America

Geography - Psychological aspects

Slavery - America - History

Women slaves - America - History

Women, Black - America - Political activity

Women, Black, in literature

Electronic books.

America Race relations

America Geography Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.