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Contending with the Palimpsest: Reading the Land through Black Women’s Emotional Geographies

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  • Andrea Roberts
  • Maia L. Butler

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Public history depicting Southern landscapes subjugates Black lived experience, foregrounding Anglo settlerism and romanticizing antebellum-era spaces. This article engages a novel and digital humanities platform as counternarrative spaces dismantling dominant narratives informing these landscapes. The Cutting Season (2012) depicts a Black woman engaging folklore, archives, and family history; solving a murder on a plantation; and constructing a counternarrative of the landscape. Similarly, The Texas Freedom Colonies Project Atlas crowdsources stories and archival material to document Black settlements where descendants are displaced-in-place. By recording Black women’s embodied place memories, the site helps Black women resist the deliberate forgetting of endangered settlements and reconstruct emotional geographies. Black women’s counternarratives illuminate their emotional geographies, world building, and rebuilding of communities presumed inert or placeless.

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  • Andrea Roberts & Maia L. Butler, 2022. "Contending with the Palimpsest: Reading the Land through Black Women’s Emotional Geographies," Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 112(3), pages 828-837, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:raagxx:v:112:y:2022:i:3:p:828-837
    DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2021.2020615
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