Dub: Finding Ceremony
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
The concluding volume in a poetic trilogy, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's Dub: Finding Ceremony takes inspiration from theorist Sylvia Wynter, dub poetry, and ocean life to offer a catalog of possible methods for remembering, healing, listening, and living otherwise. In these prose poems, Gumbs channels the voices of her ancestors, including whales, coral, and oceanic bacteria, to tell stories of diaspora, indigeneity, migration, blackness, genius, mothering, grief, and harm. Tracing the origins of colonialism, genocide, and slavery as they converge in Black feminist practice, Gumbs explores the potential for the poetic and narrative undoing of the knowledge that underpins the concept of Western humanity. Throughout, she reminds us that dominant modes of being human and the oppression those modes create can be challenged, and that it is possible to make ourselves and our planet anew.Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Alexis Pauline GumbsPublisher: Duke University PressPublished: 02/14/2020ISBN: 9781478006459Pages: 296Weight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d
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Dub: Finding Ceremony
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9781478006459
The concluding volume in a poetic trilogy, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's Dub: Finding Ceremony takes inspiration from theorist Sylvia Wynter, dub poetry, and ocean life to offer a catalog of possible methods for remembering, healing, listening, and living otherwise. In these prose poems, Gumbs channels the voices of her ancestors, including whales, coral, and oceanic bacteria, to tell stories of diaspora, indigeneity, migration, blackness, genius, mothering, grief, and harm. Tracing the origins of colonialism, genocide, and slavery as they converge in Black feminist practice, Gumbs explores the potential for the poetic and narrative undoing of the knowledge that underpins the concept of Western humanity. Throughout, she reminds us that dominant modes of being human and the oppression those modes create can be challenged, and that it is possible to make ourselves and our planet anew.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 02/14/2020
ISBN: 9781478006459
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 02/14/2020
ISBN: 9781478006459
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d
The concluding volume in a poetic trilogy, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's Dub: Finding Ceremony takes inspiration from theorist Sylvia Wynter, dub poetry, and ocean life to offer a catalog of possible methods for remembering, healing, listening, and living otherwise. In these prose poems, Gumbs channels the voices of her ancestors, including whales, coral, and oceanic bacteria, to tell stories of diaspora, indigeneity, migration, blackness, genius, mothering, grief, and harm. Tracing the origins of colonialism, genocide, and slavery as they converge in Black feminist practice, Gumbs explores the potential for the poetic and narrative undoing of the knowledge that underpins the concept of Western humanity. Throughout, she reminds us that dominant modes of being human and the oppression those modes create can be challenged, and that it is possible to make ourselves and our planet anew.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 02/14/2020
ISBN: 9781478006459
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 02/14/2020
ISBN: 9781478006459
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d