Plotting the Plantationocene with The History of Mary Prince
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22005878 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shelby Johnson (Oklahoma State University Oklahoma City, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | ABO Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-1830 (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2157-7129 • E-ISSN: 2157-7129 |
| Publisher | University of South Florida Libraries (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5038/2157-7129.13.1.1343 |
| OpenAlex | W4381328248 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
In this essay, I consider how The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself (1831) extends vital affordances for assembling a literary history of ecological rupture, settler colonialism, and transatlantic slavery. These insights arise from my experiences teaching Prince in “Plotting the Plantationocene in Early Atlantic Literature” (Fall 2021), a course which took up what it means to orient to historical formations of climate change as co-emergent with plantation systems. I argue that my students explored how figures like Prince open politically vibrant pathways for being in the world otherwise to plantation modernity
Affordance · Ancient history · Archaeology · Colonialism · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Modernity · World history · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · History · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |