Gumbs M Archive

After the End of the World
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7187-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

Engaging with the work of M. Jacqui Alexander and Black feminist thought more generally, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's M Archive is a series of prose poems that speculatively documents the survival of Black people following a worldwide cataclysm while examining the possibilities of being that exceed the human.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gumbs, Alexis Pauline

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Note ix
From the Lab Notebooks of the Last Experiments 3
Archive of Dirt: What We Did 31
Archive of Sky: What We Became 71
Archive of Fire: Rate of Change 89
Archive of Ocean: Origin 105
Baskets (Possible Futures Yet to Be Woven) 133
Memory Drive 185
Acknowledgments 213
Notes 217
Periodic Kitchen Table of Elements 227

Über Autor(innen)

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a poet, independent scholar, and activist. She is the author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, also published by Duke University Press; coeditor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines; and the founder and director of Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind, an educational program based in Durham, North Carolina.