num_pages: 304
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.
language: English
title: Dub: Finding Ceremony
publisher: Duke University Press Books