Black Gathering : Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life

Cervenak, Sarah Jane. Black Gathering : Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021.

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Abstract (English)

"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." -- Publisher's website.

Types: Monographs
All Contributors: Cervenak, Sarah Jane (Author)
Dossier: 700 - ART ET LA DIASPORA NOIRE / ART AND THE BLACK DIASPORA
Collation: 194 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9781478014478
Language of Publication: English
Publishers: Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Keywords: ECOLOGY; BLACK DIASPORA; AESTHETICS
Copyright Statement: Duke University Press
Notes:

Bibliography : pages 177-187.
Index : pages 189-194.

Series Name: Black Outdoors : Innovations in the Poetics of Study / A series edited by J. Kameron Carter and Sarah Jane Cervenak
Deposited by: Collections
Date Deposited: 10 Dec 2021 22:14
Last Modified: 07 Feb 2022 20:12
URI: http://e-artexte.ca/id/eprint/33436
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