Black Gathering

Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life

Sarah Jane Cervenak (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2021
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1355-6 (ISBN)

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In Black Gathering Sarah Jane Cervenak engages with Black artists and writers who create alternative spaces for Black people to gather free from interruption or regulation. Drawing together Black feminist theory, critical theories of ecology and ecoaesthetics, and Black aesthetics, Cervenak shows how novelists, poets, and visual artists such as Gayl Jones, Toni Morrison, Clementine Hunter, Samiya Bashir, and Leonardo Drew advance an ecological imagination that unsettles Western philosophical ideas of the earth as given to humans. In their aestheticization and conceptualization of gathering, these artists investigate the relationships among art, the environment, home, and forms of Black togetherness. Cervenak argues that by offering a formal and conceptual praxis of gathering, Black artists imagine liberation and alternative ways of being in the world that exist beyond those Enlightenment philosophies that presume Black people and earth as given to enclosure and ownership.

Sarah Jane Cervenak is Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and of African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She is the author of Wandering: Philosophical Performances of Racial and Sexual Freedom, also published by Duke University Press.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Another Beginning
Part I. Gathering's Art
1. "For a While at Least": Toni Morrison, Nikki Wallschlaeger, and the Ecoaesthetic Shapes of Home
2. The Art of the Matter: Samiya Bashir and Gabrielle Ralambo-Rajerison's Cosmopoetics
Part II. The Art of Gathering
3. Arrangements Against the Sentence: Gayl Jones's Early Literature
4. "A Project From Outside": Leonardo Drew's Sculpture
Conclusion: Clementine Hunter's Unscalable Field
Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	25.08.2021
Reihe/Serie	Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
Zusatzinfo	16 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4780-1355-9 / 1478013559
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-1355-6 / 9781478013556
Zustand	Neuware