| Dub: Finding Ceremony Contributor(s): Gumbs, Alexis Pauline (Author) |
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ISBN: 1478006455 ISBN-13: 9781478006459 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - African American - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Social Science | Black Studies (global) |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2019032704 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.80 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |