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Authors: Joan Cambridge-Mayfield, Jeremy Jacob Peretz
Publisher: Ugly Duckling Press (2025)
Jombii Jamborii is a wild party. In Guyana’s Creole language, Creolese (or Kriiyaliiz), jumbi (or jombii) can mean “wild” or “of low status.” These pejorative attributes have been similarly ascribed to Creolese through a coloniality of language centuries in the making. Jumbi, however, are also cherished and feared ancestral memory, often understood, if reductively, as “ghosts” or “spirits” offering both the promise of healing and threats of hurt. A mass of unwieldy revenants, these jumbi-words cavort together back and forth in both Creolese and English, mirroring multigenerational movement and song bridging worlds of ancestors, young, old, and those yet to be born or re-membered.
