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Biomythography Bayou

Biomythography Bayou

Lewis, Mel Michelle

Hardcover

Series: Griot Project Book

Biographies GeneralGeneral Poetry

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ISBN10: 1684484820
ISBN13: 9781684484829
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: Oct 11 2024
Pages: 214
Language: English
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.

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