Geographies of Flight: Phillis Wheatley to Octavia Butler Decker William Merrill
Geographies of Flight: Phillis Wheatley to Octavia Butler Decker William Merrill African American writing commonly represents New World topography as a set of entrapments, contesting the open…
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Geographies of Flight: Phillis Wheatley to Octavia Butler Decker William Merrill
African American writing commonly represents New World topography as a set of entrapments, contesting the open horizons, westward expansion, and individual freedom characteristic of the white, Eurocentric literary tradition. William Merrill Decker examines how, in testifying to those conditions, fourteen black authors have sought to transform a national cartography that, well into the twenty-first century, reflects white supremacist assumptions. Geographies of Flight: Phillis Wheatley to Octavia Butler provides the first comprehensive treatment of the ways in which African American authors across three centuries have confronted the predicament of inhabiting space under conditions of bondage and structural oppression.
These writers question the spatial dimensions of a mythic American liberty and develop countergeographies in which descendants of the African diaspora lay