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Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics Justice
Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics Justice in Bloomington, MN
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How Black Atlantic literature can challenge conventions and redefine literary scholarship
Abolition Time
is an invitation to reenvision abolitionist justice through literary studies. Placing critical race theory, queer theory, critical prison studies, and antiprison activism in conversation with an archive of Black Atlantic literatures of slavery, Jess A. Goldberg reveals how literary studies can help undo carceral epistemologies embedded in language and poetics.
Goldberg examines poetry, drama, and novels from the nineteenth century through the twenty-firstsuch as William Wells Brown’s
The Escape,
Angelina Weld Grimké’s
Rachel,
Toni Morrison’s
A Mercy,
and Claudia Rankine’s
Citizen
to consider literature and literary scholarship’s roles in shaping societal paradigms. Focusing on how Black Atlantic literature disrupts the grammar of law and order, they show how these texts propose nonlinear theories of time that imagine a queer relationality characterized by care rather than inheritance, property, or biology.
offers a framework for thinking critically about what is meant by the term
justice
in the broadest and deepest sense, using close reading to inform the question of abolishing prisons or the police and to think seriously about the most fundamental questions at the heart of the abolitionist movement.
Abolition Time
is an invitation to reenvision abolitionist justice through literary studies. Placing critical race theory, queer theory, critical prison studies, and antiprison activism in conversation with an archive of Black Atlantic literatures of slavery, Jess A. Goldberg reveals how literary studies can help undo carceral epistemologies embedded in language and poetics.
Goldberg examines poetry, drama, and novels from the nineteenth century through the twenty-firstsuch as William Wells Brown’s
The Escape,
Angelina Weld Grimké’s
Rachel,
Toni Morrison’s
A Mercy,
and Claudia Rankine’s
Citizen
to consider literature and literary scholarship’s roles in shaping societal paradigms. Focusing on how Black Atlantic literature disrupts the grammar of law and order, they show how these texts propose nonlinear theories of time that imagine a queer relationality characterized by care rather than inheritance, property, or biology.
offers a framework for thinking critically about what is meant by the term
justice
in the broadest and deepest sense, using close reading to inform the question of abolishing prisons or the police and to think seriously about the most fundamental questions at the heart of the abolitionist movement.
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