M Archive
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M Archive

After the End of the World

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M Archive

After the End of the World

About this book

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.

Information

Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9780822370840
9780822370697
eBook ISBN
9780822371878
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
American Poetry
Index
Literature
baskets
/
159
to 
say 
that 
it 
was 
disorienting 
is 
to 
say 
nothing 
at 
all. 
the 
whole 
func-
tion 
of 
signs 
is 
to 
orient. 
but 
to 
not 
have 
any 
reasonable 
ideas 
as 
to 
how? 
i 
think 
it 
broke 
something 
in 
me 
forever. 
the 
time 
was 
fast 
ap-
proaching 
when 
i 
wouldn’t 
be 
able 
to 
af
ford 
to 
care 
how 
the 
signs 
got 
lost, 
when 
i 
would 
even 
disdainfully 
appreciate 
the 
waterloed 
and 
quickly 
illegible 
cardboard 
and 
paper 
replacements 
that 
people 
axed. 
but 
i 
was 
never 
again 
able 
to 
trust 
that 
i 
knew 
the 
world 
i 
was 
living 
in 
or 
what 
i 
was 
capable 
of. 
i 
never 
really 
felt 
grounded 
in 
what 
i 
could 
see 
ever 
again 
aſter 
that. 
so 
that’s 
why, 
for 
me, 
even 
though 
i 
lived 
so 
many 
years 
aſter 
that 
and 
witnessed 
too 
many 
other 
catastrophes, 
that 
was 
it 
for 
me. 
the 
loss 
of 
signs. 
that 
was 
the 
end.21

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. A Note
  4. From the Lab Notebooks of the Last Experiments
  5. Archive of Dirt: What We Did
  6. Archive of Sky: What We Became
  7. Archive of Fire: Rate of Change
  8. Archive of Ocean: Origin
  9. Baskets (Possible Futures Yet to Be Woven)
  10. Memory Drive
  11. Acknowledgments
  12. Notes
  13. Periodic Kitchen Table of Elements

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