Demonic grounds : black women and the cartographies of struggle /
"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 Jaco...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press
[2006]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttv711 |
| 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." --Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxxi, 190 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-185) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816697946 0816697949 9780816647019 0816647011 9780816647026 081664702X |