Prison Shades and Carceral Shadows: Black Femme Liberation Geographies of the Early Twentieth Century South Restricted; Files Only
Lee, Ra'Niqua (Spring 2024)
Abstract
Black writers of the early twentieth century South inherited a painful history that was all too fresh. This history placed strains on their work as it created the circumstances for the carceral surveillance and restrictions they faced in their lives. This project attributes these restrictions to the legacies of racial capitalism, which has many offshoots including chattel slavery, the prison industrial complex, and globalization. To create the West as we know it today required Indigenous genocide, chattel slavery, and multiple wars, many unwinnable, all in the service of the United States’ emergence and continuation as a World power. What the global majority produce, the West consumes and claims as its own in service of itself. In the early twentieth century, this globalization was only just getting started. What we see in the works of racialized southern writers like Jean Toomer and Georgia Douglas Johnson of this time are responses to the pressures they faced and the desires they had for something that looked and felt like freedom.
Table of Contents
1. Critical Introduction: Prison Shades and Carceral Shadows, 7
2. Black Femme Embodied Resistance to a New South Criminality, 30
3. Georgia Douglas Johnson's Carceral Poetics, 55
4. Making an Erotic Sense of Jean Toomer's Carceral Landscapes, 91
5. Conclusion: Carceral Legacies, 130
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