M Archive: After the End of the World

Written by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Narrated by Angel Pean

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Jul 27, 2021
• ISBN: 9781666147582

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a poet, independent scholar, and activist. She is the author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals and Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity. She is the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and the recipient of the Whiting Foundation Winner in Nonfiction in 2022. 

Reviews for M Archive

[Lucia · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I felt this book more than I thought it. It's such a different yet wonderful feeling, and I love it. I want more of it. I'll reread this book many times in the future, I know it.