Dub : finding ceremony /

"In DUB Alexis Pauline Gumbs continues with the third book in her poetry series, the first two books being Spill, inspired by Hortense Spillers, and M Archive, inspired by Jacqui Alexander. Whereas Spill deals with the contemporary afterlives of slavery and M Archive describes the post-dated ev...

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Main Author: Gumbs, Alexis Pauline, 1982- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
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