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

• Autore: McKittrick Katherine
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.48/89607009
• Soggetto topico: Women, Black - America - Social conditions; African diaspora; Human geography - America; Geography - Psychological aspects; Slavery - America - History; Enslaved women - America - History; Women, Black - America - Political activity; Women, Black, in literature
• Soggetto geografico: America Race relations; America Geography Psychological aspects
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Demonic grounds
• ISBN: 0-8166-9794-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784388603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II