The Rich Earth between Us: The Intimate Grounds. Johnson**

Name: The Rich Earth between Us: The Intimate Grounds. Johnson**
Brand: The University of North Carolina Press

The University of North Carolina Press

The Rich Earth Between UsThe Intimate Grounds of Race and Sexuality in the Atlantic World, 1770-1840\nAuthor(s): Shelby Johnson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press, United States\nImprint: The University of North Carolina Press\nISBN-13: 9781469677910, 978-1469677910\nSynopsis\nIn this theory-rich study, Shelby Johnson analyzes the works of Black and Indigenous writers in the Atlantic World, examining how their literary production informs \""modes of being\"" that confronted violent colonial times. Johnson particularly assesses how these authors connected to placeswhether real or imaginedand how those connections enabled them to make worlds in spite of the violence of slavery and settler colonialism. Johnson engages with works written in a period engulfed by the extraordinary political and social upheavals of the Age of Revolution and Indian Removal, and these textswhich include not only sermons, life writing, and periodicals but also descriptions of e.