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Biomythography bayou / Mel Michelle Lewis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, Mel Michelle, author.
- Series:
- The Griot Project Book Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Alabama--La Batre, Bayou--Biography.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore--Biography.
- Gender-nonconforming people--Alabama--La Batre, Bayou--Biography.
- Gender-nonconforming people.
- Gender-nonconforming people--Maryland--Baltimore--Biography.
- Lewis, Mel Michelle.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (214 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- "Biomythography Bayou is a ritual, making available multigenerational blood memory, nonlinear time, and spiritual connection. Eurocentric epistemologies are drowned down deep. Each section of the text opens with an explicatory essay, animating the powers of particular elements in nature and thereby offering context to history, location, community, and cultural specificity. Essays are followed by a collection of thematic narrative portraits that maintain a relationship with the element and with one another; they embody nonlinear generational connection, scene, setting, and theme. Influenced by Audre Lorde's biomythographic form, Alexis DeVeaux's embodiments in queer time, and Octavia Butler's historical harkening and speculative futurist meditations, the author quilts the narrative contours of decolonial Black and Indigenous queerness and kinship across time and place. The text's primary foundations lie in the anthropological narratives and cultural analyses, both fiction and non-fiction, of Zora Neale Hurston and the political poetic portraits of Gwendolyn Brooks"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- 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
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-68448-483-9
- 1-68448-484-7
- OCLC:
- 1451798496
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