This Shoal Which Is Not One: Island Studies, Performance Studies, and Africans Who Fly

This essay explores variant stories surrounding the 1803 ‘Igbo Landing’ on St. Simons Island, Georgia, in which a group of enslaved Africans mutinied against their captors and ran aground upon a shoal. Following Tiffany Lethabo King and other scholars of Black feminist thought, the essay explores no...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rebecca Schneider
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Island Studies Journal 2020-10-01
Series:Island Studies Journal
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.24043/isj.135