A review by soafricane
Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
5.0
In this prose & poetry collection, Gumbs maintains intimate literary conversations with Hortense Spillers, Saidiya Hartman, Phillis Wheatley, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Shelley Eversley, and several other Black feminist writers—or as Gumbs describes them: “the literary archive of freedom-seeking black women”.
Hortense Spillers, whom the first first syllables of her last name title the book, says of it and Gumbs that “Nobody else is like Alexis. The kind of conversation that the text is setting up between poetry and prose, and between a poetic posture and a scholarly posture, I don't think I've ever seen that.”
The pieces Gumbs offers cut through spatial and temporal fibers of the works cited placing Spill in a unique location within Black feminist vaults of literature.
It’s sincerely one of the most incomparable, flooding and bewitching non-fiction texts of our time.
Hortense Spillers, whom the first first syllables of her last name title the book, says of it and Gumbs that “Nobody else is like Alexis. The kind of conversation that the text is setting up between poetry and prose, and between a poetic posture and a scholarly posture, I don't think I've ever seen that.”
The pieces Gumbs offers cut through spatial and temporal fibers of the works cited placing Spill in a unique location within Black feminist vaults of literature.
It’s sincerely one of the most incomparable, flooding and bewitching non-fiction texts of our time.