M Archive: After the End of the World

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Type
Book
Authors
Gumbs ( Alexis Pauline Gumbs )
ISBN 10
0822370840
ISBN 13
9780822370840
Category
Publication Year
2018
Publisher
Duke University Press, United States
URL
[ private ]
Pages
249
Subject
Afro-Futurism
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Abstract
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.
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Number of Copies
1
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