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.
| Sobre o Livro |
Inspirado por Sylvia Wynter e pela dub poetry, o livro reúne poemas em prosa que canalizam vozes ancestrais, incluindo baleias, corais e bactérias oceânicas, para narrar diáspora, migração, maternidade, luto e negritude. Traçando as origens do colonialismo, genocídio e escravidão, Gumbs propõe caminhos de memória e reparação e realiza uma análise sobre como práticas feministas negras podem contestar as bases do conceito ocidental de humanidade. Por meio de procedimentos poéticos e narrativos, a autora oferece métodos para lembrar, curar, escutar e imaginar modos de vida alternativos, sugerindo possibilidades de renovação pessoal e planetária.
|