{"product_id":"dub-9781478006459","title":"Dub","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe concluding volume in a poetic trilogy, Alexis Pauline Gumbs''s \u003ci\u003eDub: Finding Ceremony\u003c\/i\u003e 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. In these prose poems, Gumbs channels the voices of her ancestors, including whales, coral, and oceanic bacteria, to tell stories of diaspora, indigeneity, migration, blackness, genius, mothering, grief, and harm. Tracing the origins of colonialism, genocide, and slavery as they converge in Black feminist practice, Gumbs explores the potential for the poetic and narrative undoing of the knowledge that underpins the concept of Western humanity. Throughout, she reminds us that dominant modes of being human and the oppression those modes create can be challenged, and that it is possible to make ourselves and our planet anew.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Grounded in oríkì-like references to Sylvia Wynter’s oeuvre, \u003ci\u003eDub \u003c\/i\u003esimultaneously contracts and expands to create a new form of proprioception, which allows us as a species, phantomed by the corrosive and lacerating actions of history, to locate ourselves in relation to other species, as well as within the time-space continuum of the yet to be, the now and the ‘past.’ Part prayer, oration, exhortation, commentary and story, \u003ci\u003eDub \u003c\/i\u003eamplifies ancestral voices to become mythopoesis in the making.” -- M. NourbeSe Philip, author of * Zong! *\u003cbr\u003e“Offering a sweeping, thoughtful, and exquisite meditation on Sylvia Wynter's work, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's poetic engagement represents a new and unique way of encountering and paying homage to Black feminist theory and Black feminist theorists. A beautiful and graceful text, \u003ci\u003eDub \u003c\/i\u003ewill inspire readers to return to and to rethink Wynter's work and her place within African Diaspora studies, Caribbean studies, and Black feminist studies.” -- Lisa B. Thompson, author of * Single Black Female *\u003cbr\u003e\"Breath is an important theme in \u003ci\u003eDub\u003c\/i\u003e. As is gratitude in the face of environmental decline. Because our ancestors navigated so intimately through change, Gumbs sets out to prove, so can we. . . . [An] exquisitely rendered love letter. . . .\" -- Ashia Ajani * Sierra *\u003cbr\u003e\"People throw around terms like Genius and Magic frequently but if you open this book, flip to any passage, and don’t feel moved from your soul then I will assume that you don’t have one. 5 Stars aren't enough for this sacred text but it's all we got so . . . .\" -- Adrien Julious * Authentically Adrien blog *\u003cbr\u003e\"I am so grateful that Alexis Pauline Gumbs listens to Black women writers and scholars the way that she does. . . . \u003ci\u003eDub\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of our now. As tends to be the case with the books that Gumbs summons, the timing of \u003ci\u003eDub\u003c\/i\u003e is prescient. With our breathless global attention set to registering the various way a virus connects all life forms, I cannot think of a better time for a book that tarries with and makes ceremony with Sylvia Wynter.\" -- Tiffany Lethabo King * Antipode *\u003cbr\u003e\"[G]round-breaking. . . . Gumbs’s trilogy embraces the lyric beauty in the acts of naming, remembering, and finding one’s way back to the source. . . . Reading Gumbs’s books feels like reading an archive that will someday, who knows maybe even someday soon, usher in an era of radical transformation.\" -- Kathryn Nuernberger * West Branch *\u003cbr\u003e“Both a gathering and a recovery, this last pivotal volume in a trilogy commits to a new poetics. . . . \u003ci\u003eDub \u003c\/i\u003ewakes us concussively. Both wrenching and playful, it offers instructions (two sets of them), warnings, and its central bid \u003ci\u003eto listen \u003c\/i\u003eto the undrowned.” -- Susan McCabe * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Note  ix\u003cbr\u003e Request  1\u003cbr\u003e Commitment  3\u003cbr\u003e Instructions  5\u003cbr\u003e Opening  7\u003cbr\u003e Whale Chorus  15\u003cbr\u003e Remembering  21\u003cbr\u003e Nunánuk  34\u003cbr\u003e Boda  40\u003cbr\u003e Anguilla  47\u003cbr\u003e Another Set of Instructions  66\u003cbr\u003e Red August  74\u003cbr\u003e Relation  92\u003cbr\u003e Prophet  94\u003cbr\u003e And  110\u003cbr\u003e Skin  114\u003cbr\u003e Losing it All  120\u003cbr\u003e It's Your Father  126\u003cbr\u003e Edict  145\u003cbr\u003e Edgegrove  153\u003cbr\u003e Unlearning Herself  163\u003cbr\u003e Birth Chorus  177\u003cbr\u003e Conditions  194\u003cbr\u003e Jamaica  199\u003cbr\u003e Blood Chorus  202\u003cbr\u003e Shop  214\u003cbr\u003e Orchard  220\u003cbr\u003e Cycle  227\u003cbr\u003e Saving the Planet  231\u003cbr\u003e Staying  239\u003cbr\u003e Letting Go  246\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  253\u003cbr\u003e Notes  261\u003cbr\u003e Crate Dig  273","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867285336407,"sku":"9781478006459","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478006459.jpg?v=1722282596","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dub-9781478006459","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}