{"product_id":"ancestors-paperback-2","title":"Ancestors - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEd Pavlic\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eIvelisse Rodriguez\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is rare now for people to stay where they were raised, and when we encounter one another--whether in person or, increasingly, online--it is usually in contexts that obscure if not outright hide details about our past. But even in moments of pure self-invention, we are always shaped by the past. In \u003cem\u003eAncestors\u003c\/em\u003e, some of today's most imaginative writers consider what it means to be made and fashioned by others. Are we shaped by grandparents, family, the deep past, political forebears, inherited social and economic circumstances? Can we choose our family, or is blood always thicker? And looking forward, what will it mean to be ancestors ourselves, and how will our descendants remember us?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlexis Pauline Gumbs is the author of \u003ci\u003eSpill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eM Archive: After the End of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUndrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDub: Finding Ceremony\u003c\/i\u003e and the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines\u003c\/i\u003e. She is Provost of the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind in Durham, North Carolina, and cofounder of the Black Feminist Bookmobile, Black Feminist Film School, and the Mobile Homecoming Trust Living Library and Archive of Queer Black Brilliance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEd Pavlic is the author of \u003ci\u003eLive at the Bitter End\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWho Can Afford to Improvise? James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listener\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLet's Let That Are Not Yet: Inferno\u003c\/i\u003e; and other books. He is Distinguished Research Professor in the English Department and in the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Georgia. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIvelisse Rodriguez's debut short story collection, \u003ci\u003eLove War Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, was a 2019 PEN\/Faulkner finalist and a 2018 Foreword Reviews INDIES finalist. She is the founder and editor of an interview series focused on contemporary Puerto Rican writers published in Centro Voices and a \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e contributing arts editor.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 23, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42155757011079,"sku":"9781946511553","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/9babb3c31c11fcc450299ed14e87e057.webp?v=1733238547","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/ancestors-paperback-2","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}