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  • Demonic Grounds

  • Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle
  • Written by: Katherine McKittrick
  • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
  • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
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Demonic Grounds

Written by: Katherine McKittrick
Narrated by: Machelle Williams
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In a long overdue contribution to geography and social theory, Katherine McKittrick offers a new and powerful interpretation of Black women's geographic thought. In Canada, the Caribbean, and the United States, Black women inhabit diasporic locations marked by the legacy of violence and slavery. Analyzing diverse literatures and material geographies, McKittrick reveals how human geographies are a result of racialized connections and how spaces that are fraught with limitation are underacknowledged but meaningful sites of political opposition.

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, the author 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.

Central to McKittrick's argument are the ways in which Black women are not passive recipients of their surroundings and how a sense of place relates to the struggle against domination. Ultimately, McKittrick argues, these complex Black geographies are alterable and may provide the opportunity for social and cultural change.

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Black geographies told through spatial metaphors

This is an important text in the development of Black geographies. Using the spatial metaphors of the garret, the auction block, and the buried histories of Black Canada through the story of Marie-Joseph Angélique, McKittrick presents powerful spatial metaphors to help us think through the richness of black geographies and spatialities and the intellectual tools they offer us in anticolonial struggles. McKittrick engages with a range of literary materials to illustrate her arguments (books, plays) and her use of this cultural material is sophisticated, absorbing and enlightening. McKittrick also signals how her theorizing is linked to the work of Black writers and theorists, especially Sylvia Wynter (from whom the notion of demonic ground comes from; "grounds that operate outside mainstream feminist ‘present governing system of meaning, or theory/ontology…’ (S. Wynter 1990: 356). There is much to reflect upon in this book, and its contribution to raising the necessity of attending to Black experience and recognizing its importance to geographical thought is profound. The narration for the audio book by Machelle Williams is well paced and engaging.

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