Title: Voodoo hypothesis : poems /
Authors: Lubrin, Canisia,
Year: 2017
Subjects: Black people Social conditions Poetry.; Black people Race identity Poetry.; Stereotypes (Social psychology) Social aspects Poetry.; Social classes Poetry.; Good and evil Poetry.; Race relations Poetry.; Conduct of life Poetry
Abstract: "Voodoo Hypothesisis a subversion of the imperial construct of 'blackness' and a rejection of the contemporary and historical systems that paint black people as inferior, through constant parallel representations of 'evil' and 'savagery.' Pulling from pop culture, science, pseudo-science and contemporary news stories about race, Lubrin asks: What happens if the systems of belief that give science, religion and culture their importance were actually applied to the contemporary 'black experience'? With its irreverence toward colonialism, and the related obsession with post-colonialism and anti-colonialism, and her wide-ranging lines, deftly touched with an intermingling of Caribbean Creole, English patois and baroque language, Lubrin has created a book that holds up a torch to the narratives of the ruling class, and shows us the restorative possibilities that exist in language itself."--
Contents: Voodoo Hypothesis -- The Mongrel -- Aftershocks -- Our Mapless Season -- Keepers of Paradise -- Children of the Archipelago -- The Frankenstein Universe -- The Stations of the Cross -- Bastian Plane -- Nowhere the Pythagoras -- Give Us Fire or the Black Prometheus -- Through the Flaying of Backs -- Herringbone -- Origin of the Breach -- Give Back Our Children -- Fire of Roseau -- Village Crescendos -- Of One's Unknown Body -- On Being at the Dawn of Remembrance -- Suite from Island 99 -- Lacking the Wind's Higher Reasoning -- Polite Uncertainty -- Opus 23: Eve After the Fall -- Up the Lighthouse -- And If Today I Die -- Sons of Orion -- At the End of the World -- An Empire's Tab -- Turn Right at the Darkness -- Fire for the Ghost Dance -- Tonight, the Mayfly -- Ghetto Bird -- Final Prayer in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception I -- Final Prayer in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception II -- The Hour of Ascending -- Unofficial Biography of the Sea -- That Instrument of Laughter -- Let the Gods to Do Their Work -- Elliptical Narrations -- Bricolage -- Resortations -- Long Wreckage -- Riptide Blues -- Epistle to the Ghost Gathering.