M archive
Subtitle: after the end of the world
By: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780822370697; 9780822370840
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Black Women; Poetry; Feminism
Description: "Following the innovative collection Spill, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's M Archive--the second book in a planned experimental triptych--is a series of poetic artifacts that speculatively documents the persistence of Black life following a worldwide cataclysm. Engaging with the work of the foundational Black feminist theorist M. Jacqui Alexander, and following the trajectory of Gumbs's acclaimed visionary fiction short story "Evidence," M Archive is told from the perspective of a future researcher who uncovers evidence of the conditions of late capitalism, antiblackness, and environmental crisis while examining possibilities of being that exceed the human. By exploring how Black feminist theory is already after the end of the world, Gumbs reinscribes the possibilities and potentials of scholarship while demonstrating the impossibility of demarcating the lines between art, science, spirit, scholarship, and politics" -- From the publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: From the lab notebooks of the last experiments; title: Archive of dirt: what we did; title: Archive of sky: what we became; title: Archive of fire: rate of change; title: Archive of ocean: origin; title: Baskets (possible futures yet to be woven); title: Memory drive.