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The Black Shoals : Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies /

The author uses the shoal--an offshore geologic formation that is neither land nor sea--as metaphor, mode of critique, and methodology to theorize the encounter between Black studies and Native studies. The author conceptualizes the shoal as a space where Black and Native literary traditions, politi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: King, Tiffany Lethabo, 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham [North Carolina] : Duke University Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: the black shoals
  • Errant grammars: defacing the ceremony
  • The map (settlement) and the territory (the incompleteness of conquest)
  • At the pores of the plantation
  • Our Cherokee uncles: Black and Native erotics
  • A ceremony for sycorax
  • Epilogue: of water and land
  • Notes
  • BIbliography
  • Index.