Alexis Pauline Gumbs Pořadí knih (chronologicky)

VINTAGE CLASSICS//WEIRD GIRLS: Dive into the depraved, delectable depths of women's weird fiction. 'A groundbreaking work of Afrofuturism before the term was even coined' Guardian 'A lush, exciting, inspiring read' Sarah Waters In this radically reimagined vampire myth, the night hides many things... Louisiana, 1850. A young girl escapes slavery and is taken in by two mysterious women. Rumoured to be witches, the pair travel only at night, dress in men's clothing and seem to know others' innermost thoughts. But the girl sees the promise of true freedom in their dark glittering eyes: the promise to 'share the blood' and live forever. They name her Gilda. Over the next two hundred years, Gilda moves through unseen spaces: through antebellum brothels, gold-rush bars, Black women's suffrage groups, hair salons and jazz clubs, searching for a way to exist in the world. Her body, powerful against the passage of time, will know both beauty and horror through the women she desires and the blood she craves. But can Gilda truly outrun the darkness of history and face a future where the lives of everyone she loves are at stake? The VINTAGE CLASSICS//WEIRD GIRLS series ventures into the dark heart of the uncanny with disturbing, and disturbed, protagonists who dare to defy the norm. Bold, deviant, chilling and enchanting, these tales of the weird are strange enough to get lost in.

Das Gewässer, in dem das Ertrinken droht, ist der Atlantik, über den Millionen versklavter Afrikaner*innen nach Nordamerika verschleppt wurden. Und es ist das Erbe dieser kollektiven Erfahrung.Alexis Pauline Gumbs spricht von denjenigen, die ertranken - buchstäblich und metaphorisch -, denjenigen, die sagten »I can't breathe«, und denjenigen, die trotz allem weiteratmeten. Auch heute weiteratmen, nichtertrinken.Sie lädt dazu ein, eine neue Art des Atmens zu erlernen. Als Mentor*innen stellt sie uns Wale, Delfine, Robben, Walrosse und Seekühe vor. Denn wer könnte mehr über das Nichtertrinken wissen? In neunzehn Lektionen verwebt Alexis Pauline Gumbs auf poetische Weise naturwissenschaftliche Beobachtungen mit Ansätzen und Erkenntnissen des Black Feminism.Sie fragt sich, wie die Echoortung unser Verständnis von visionärem Handeln beeinflussen kann, und betrachtet die Methoden, mit denen sich Menschen und Meeressäuger zunehmend bedrohlichen Umständen anpassen - oder anpassen könnten.Leiten lässt sich Gumbs von der Liebe und der Bewunderung für unsere aquatischen Verwandten, die es ihr erlauben, ihnen auf Augenhöhe zu begegnen und von ihnen zu lernen.

Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subversive and transformative guidance of marine mammals. Our aquatic cousins are queer, fierce, protective of each other, complex, shaped by conflict, and struggling to survive the extractive and militarized conditions our species has imposed on the ocean. Gumbs employs a brilliant mix of poetic sensibility and naturalist observation to show what they might teach us, producing not a specific agenda but an unfolding space for wondering and questioning. From the relationship between the endangered North Atlantic Right Whale and Gumbs’s Shinnecock and enslaved ancestors to the ways echolocation changes our understandings of “vision” and visionary action, this is a masterful use of metaphor and natural models in the service of social justice.

The concluding volume in a poetic triptych, 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.