Spill : scenes of black feminist fugitivity / Alexis Pauline Gumbs.
"In Spill, self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of scenes depicting fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism. In this poetic work inspired by Hortense Spillers, Gu...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2016.
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| Summary: | "In Spill, self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of scenes depicting fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism. In this poetic work inspired by Hortense Spillers, Gumbs offers an alternative approach to Black feminist literary criticism, historiography, and the interactive practice of relating to the words of Black feminist thinkers. Gumbs not only speaks to the spiritual, bodily, and otherworldly experience of Black women but allows readers to imagine new possibilities for poetry as a portal for understanding and deepening feminist theory"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 163 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-163) |
| ISBN: | 9780822362722 9780822362562 0822362562 0822362724 |