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Spanning three centuries, this book demonstrates a variety of archival practices to tell more expansive stories about Black women. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.
List of contents
Introduction: Finding and Mapping Black Women in the Interstices. 1. Sankofa Imperatives: Black Women, Digital Methods, and the Archival Turn 2. Black Women Making Place in Nineteenth- Century Newspapers 3. Matilda Hawkins Tyler: Mapping One Woman’s Geography of Kinship and Perseverance 4. Race, Space, and Celebrating Simms: Mapping Strategies for Black Feminist Biographical Recovery 5. Nancy Prince: Strategic (Re)mappings through Travel and Text 6. “An Elegy of Place”: Affective Mapping in June Jordan’s Civil Wars 7. We Are Here: Jesmyn Ward’s Black Feminist Poethics of Place in Men We Reaped 8. Towards a Method of Black Feminist Archival Bricolage: Memory-Keeping within, beneath and beyond the Archive
About the author
Kimberly D. Blockett is Professor and Chair of Africana Studies at the University of Delaware, Newark, USA. She employs archives and cultural geography to examine Black women’s movement. The archival work for her recent edition (2021) and book (2024) on Zilpha Elaw was funded by the Ford Foundation, the NEH, and Harvard Divinity School.
Summary
Spanning three centuries, this book demonstrates a variety of archival practices to tell more expansive stories about Black women. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.
