After and with the End of the World: Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ Speculative Poetics as Spiritual Practice.”
(2025) Green Letters : studies in ecocriticism — Vol. 29, n° 1, p. 64-78 (2025)
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- Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a self-proclaimed ‘Queer Black Troublemaker and Love Evangelist’. Her work, both written and performed, breaks the boundaries of traditional genres. It is poetry, academic research, narrative, ceremony, and archive. This article investigates two of her collections, M Archive: After The End of The World (2018) and Dub: Finding Ceremony (2020), to understand the role of speculative poetics as a form of spiritual practice. More specifically, I argue that Gumbs’ spiritual-speculative poetics, which she describes as ‘not not ancestrally co-written’, embodies practices and presences from diasporic Africana traditions in order to reconnect with the more-than-human and imagine futures beyond the (White) Anthropocene. Reading these texts, this article suggests that reconsidering the spirituality in Anthropocene literature may be a necessary complement to established approaches in eco-critical thought
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Dragt, K. (2025). After and with the End of the World: Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ Speculative Poetics as Spiritual Practice.”. Green Letters : studies in ecocriticism, 29(1), 64-78. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/269681 (Original work published 2025)