Gumbs Spill

Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7357-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 184 Seiten

In Spill poet, independent scholar, and activist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of poetry inspired by Black feminist literary critic Hortense Spillers depicting scenes of fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gumbs, Alexis Pauline

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Note xi
How She Knew 1
How She Spelled It 17
How She Left 31
How She Survived until Then 45
What She Did Not Say 61
What He Was Thinking 75
Where She Ended Up 91
The Witnesses the Wayward the Waiting 111
How We Know 125
The Way 141
Acknowledgments 151
Notes 153
Bibliography 161

Über Autor(innen)

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a poet, independent scholar, and activist. She is 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.