Subversive Cartography: Teaching Mary Prince and Saidiya Hartman

This chapter utilizes Hartman’s methodology of retrieval to create a map1 in StoryMap JS2 (“the map” or “this map”) that analyzes multiple geographic spaces The History Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative and Saidiya Lose Your Mother: Journey Along the Atlantic Route . map is an archive witness some geographical Prince lived (and was sold) as enslaved woman seeking freedom places which Hartman has conducted research visited Ghana “free” woman. Layering past over present creates subversive cartography, one subverts unsettles monolithic narrative transatlantic slave trade. Twenty-two locations are mapped merge past, present, future not compartmentalized contained by borders timelines because “At stake recognizing antiblackness total climate” (Sharpe 21). will elicit questions responsibility on how unsettle colonial narratives about Black African American women. interrogates formerly already always existence beyond hegemonic structures contribute capitalist economy.