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by Katherine McKittrick (Author), Brittany Meché (Editor)
A uniquely structured collection of essays from one of today's most esteemed scholars of black studies
A thoughtfully curated selection of texts by preeminent black feminist scholar Katherine McKittrick, Heartbreak and Other Geographies showcases the remarkable depth of inquiry she has generated over twenty years. Edited by Brittany Meché and Camilla Hawthorne, this collection highlights McKittrick's enduring commitment to ideas around radical placemaking and the creative articulations of and within the black diaspora.
McKittrick's work is marked by a recurring engagement with anticolonialism, practices of liberation, and radical methodologies of black cultural production. Through discussions of figures such as Toni Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Édouard Glissant, Paul Gilroy, Nina Simone, and Sylvia Wynter, the writing in Heartbreak and Other Geographies spans the author's investigations into scientific method, liberal modernity, the cycles that perpetuate racial violence, and the poetics and sonics of black livingness.
Bringing together recent texts, influential pieces, and lesser-known essays, the unconventional format of Heartbreak and Other Geographies includes an introductory conversation with McKittrick as well as a series of creative interludes from the editors throughout the book. Innovative in both form and content, this wide-ranging volume invites us to rethink the boundaries between disciplines and the ways that scholarship can embody a more collaborative form of worldmaking.
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Author Biography
Katherine McKittrick is professor of gender studies and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies at Queen's University. She is author of Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle (Minnesota, 2006 and 2026) and Dear Science and Other Stories; editor of Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis; and coeditor of Black Geographies and the Politics of Place.
Brittany Meché is assistant professor of environmental studies at Williams College. Her writing has been published in many journals, including Political Geography, Society and Space, and Antipode.
Camilla Hawthorne is associate professor of sociology at University of California Santa Cruz. She is author of Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean and coeditor of The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders, and Citizenship and The Black Geographic: Praxis, Resistance, Futurity.
