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  • 5 - Black Ecological Insurgencies

  • from Part I - Extraction and Abstraction
  • Edited by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, Pomona College, California
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to the Black Body in American Literature
    Published online:
    09 May 2024
    Print publication:
    16 May 2024, pp 72-85

  • Summary

    “Black Ecological Insurgencies” charts the formation of an insurgent ecological tradition in the Tidewater of Virginia from slavery through the emergence of Jim Crow, underscoring the relationship between these formations and the re-grounding of Black subjectivity within the Black body in contrast to the latter’s abstraction and extraction in the service of expropriation and accumulation associated with plantation and post-emancipation transformations of the landscape. Engaging court documents, bills of sale, slave narratives, state records related to the consolidation of fisheries, as well as historical newspapers articles and related images, I excavate the dynamic relation between Black collective self-creation, fugitivity, resistance, land and aquacultural cultivation, and the rejoining of Black subjectivity and embodiment outside the premises of fungibility and disposability.