# Ancestors - Paperback

by **Ed Pavlic** (Editor), **Ivelisse Rodriguez** (Editor)

It 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 _Ancestors_, 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?

### Author Biography

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the author of _Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity_, _M Archive: After the End of the World_, _Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals_, and _Dub: Finding Ceremony_ and the coeditor of _Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines_. 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.

Ed Pavlic is the author of _Live at the Bitter End_; _Who Can Afford to Improvise? James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listener_; _Let's Let That Are Not Yet: Inferno_; 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.

Ivelisse Rodriguez's debut short story collection, _Love War Stories_, 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 _Boston Review_ contributing arts editor.

**Number of Pages:** 192

**Dimensions:** 0.6 x 8.9 x 6 IN

**Publication Date:** March 23, 2021

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