{"product_id":"geographies-of-flight-9780810142329","title":"Geographies of Flight","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProvides 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. The book examines how fourteen black authors have sought to transform a cartography that reflects white supremacist assumptions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Decker’s \u003ci\u003eGeographies of Flight \u003c\/i\u003eis an intellectual, philosophical, political, social, cultural, and activist tour de force. A radical and revolutionary blueprint representing a call to scholarly arms in today’s world in which the ‘formidable structures of oppression’ are continuing to exert a dehumanizing stranglehold over US society, his pioneering methodology asks and answers the vitally important question to which we must all be held accountable: ‘How do we hear the descendant voices of those who write from spaces shaped by the African diaspora?’” —Celeste-Marie Bernier, author of \u003ci\u003eCharacters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e “Ambitious in scope, William Merrill Decker’s \u003ci\u003eGeographies of Flight: Phillis Wheatley to Octavia Butler \u003c\/i\u003easks us to reconsider the complex geographies of testimonial personhood in the development of the African American literary tradition over the longue durÉe. It offers insightful, detailed readings of the most significant autobiographical nonfiction and fiction in the canon.” —Edlie Wong, author of \u003ci\u003eRacial Reconstruction: Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrologue\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: Signifying Space: Geographies of Domination and Resistance\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Voices from the Global South\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Slave State to Free\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: Domestic Uplift and Escape Abroad\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Notes from Underground\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: Next Worlds\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Color Outside the Lines\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577531634007,"sku":"9780810142329","price":31.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780810142329.jpg?v=1746095721","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/geographies-of-flight-9780810142329","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}