Biomythography Bayou
Bucknell University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-68448-482-9 (ISBN)
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When your stories flow from the brackish waters of the Gulf South, where the land and water merge, your narratives cannot be contained or constrained by the Eurocentric conventions of autobiography. When your story is rooted in the histories of your West African, Creek, and Creole ancestors, as well as your Black, feminist, and queer communities, you must create a biomythography that transcends linear time and extends beyond the pages of a book.
Biomythography Bayou is more than just a book of memoir; it is a ritual for conjuring queer embodied knowledges and decolonial perspectives. Blending a rich gumbo of genres—from ingredients such as praise songs, folk tales, recipes, incantations, and invocations—it also includes a multimedia component, with “bayou tableau” images and audio recording links. Inspired by such writers as Audre Lorde, Zora Neale Hurston, and Octavia Butler, Mel Michelle Lewis draws from the well of her ancestors in order to chart a course toward healing Afrofutures. Showcasing the nature, folklore, dialect, foodways, music, and art of the Gulf’s coastal communities, Lewis finds poetic ways to celebrate their power and wisdom.
MEL MICHELLE LEWIS (she/they), vice president for people, justice, and cultural affairs at American Rivers, is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, teacher, and environmental justice practitioner and an affiliated researcher with the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. Originally from Bayou la Batre on the Alabama Gulf Coast, they currently reside in Baltimore. Read more here: melmichellelewis.com
Acknowledgments
Land and Labor Acknowledgment
Conjure Portal
Part 1: Water
Elemental Essay: Water
Catfish Mardi Gras Queen
Bayou Honeyman
Water Recipe
Praise Song for Blue Crab
Part 2: Fire
Elemental Essay: Fire
Tongues of Fire
Twin Flames on the Other Side of Fire
Ashy
Ceasefire
Jazz Fired
Part 3: Earth
Elemental Essay: Earth
Praise Song for the Road Home
What on Earth
Erosion
Who Got the Body?
Part 4: Mineral
Elemental Essay: Mineral
Salt
Red Clay Recipe
Indian Shell Mound Park
Oyster Shuck
Part 5: Nature
Elemental Essay: Nature
Spell for a Bee
Thunder Cake
Nature Preserve
Estuary
Storm Warning
Return Portal
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.10.2024 |
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Reihe/Serie | The Griot Project Book Series |
Zusatzinfo | 11 color and 4 B-W |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 454 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte | |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 1-68448-482-0 / 1684484820 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-68448-482-9 / 9781684484829 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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