{"product_id":"geographies-of-flight-william-merrill-decker-9780810142329","title":"Geographies of Flight: Phillis Wheatley to Octavia Butler","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfrican 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. \u003ci\u003eGeographies of Flight: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhillis Wheatley to Octavia Butler\u003c\/i\u003e 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. 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. These writers question the spatial dimensions of a mythic American liberty and develop countergeographies in which descendants of the African diaspora lay claim to the America they have materially and culturally created.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracking the testimonial voice in a range of literary genres, \u003ci\u003eGeographies of Flight\u003c\/i\u003e explores themes of placement and mobility in the work of Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, W. E. B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Malcolm X, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Octavia Butler.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Merrill Decker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810142325\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810142329\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.10w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2021","brand":"William Merrill Decker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086904832255,"sku":"9780810142329","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d7e500d1-f104-4a97-9541-d26057bedcdc.jpg?v=1769097242","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/geographies-of-flight-william-merrill-decker-9780810142329","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}