The Rich Earth between Us
The Intimate Grounds of Race and Sexuality in the Atlantic World, 1770–1840
By Shelby Johnson
230 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 2 halftones, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-7791-0
Published: March 2024 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-7790-3
Published: March 2024 -
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In studying writers of color during this era, Johnson probes the histories of their lived environment and of the earth itself—its limits, its finite resources, and its metaphoric mortality—in a way that offers new insights on what it means to imagine sustainable connections to the ground on which we walk.
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Shelby Johnson is assistant professor of English at Oklahoma State University.
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"This text joins a growing conversation on the solidarities between African diasporic and Indigenous communities of the Atlantic World. The creativity, care, and deep, multifield engagement that Johnson brings to her primary sources is a model for what scholarship on this period can be." —Greta LaFleur, Yale University
"Johnson moves fluidly through current scholarship and theoretical work to produce a deeply thoughtful and reorienting reading of the work of four prominent eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Black and Native writers. A powerful and original contribution that is very much at the heart of current conversations in the field."—Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Northeastern University