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Black gathering : art, ecology, ungiven life

Title
Black gathering : art, ecology, ungiven life / Sarah Jane Cervenak.
Author
Cervenak, Sarah Jane, 1975-
Publication
  • Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
  • ©2021

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Description
xi, 194 pages : illustrations (black and white); 23 cm
Summary
"In Black Gathering, Sarah Jane Cervenak engages post-1970s Black artists and writers who, through language, image, and form, create alternate environments for Black people and earth to come together without interruption or regulation. Drawing on Black feminist theory, critical theories of ecology and ecoaesthetics, and theories of Black aesthetics, Cervenak engages Black artistic enactments of ecology and ungiven life. She thinks particularly about how Black artists and writers, like Gayl Jones and Clementine Hunter, enact spaces of gathering for the besieged to come together without regulation. Moreover, she attends to the significance of Black artists' gatherings as praxis, as practice without the interruptions of imposed category or imposed relation"--
Series Statement
Black outdoors : innovations in the poetics of study
Uniform Title
Black outdoors.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
  • African American art > 20th century
  • African American aesthetics
  • African American women authors
  • African American women artists
  • African American artists
  • Womanism
  • Ecocriticism
  • African American art
  • American literature
  • American literature > African American authors
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-187) and index.
Contents
"For a while at least" : Toni Morrison, Nikki Wallschlaeger, and the ecoaesthetic shapes of home -- The art of the matter : Samiya Bashir and Gabrielle Ralambo-Rajerison's cosmopoetics -- Arrangements against the sentence : Gayl Jones's early literature" -- "A "project from outside" : Leonardo Drew's sculpture -- Conclusion: Clementine Hunter's unscalable field.
Call Number
Sc E 21-1492
ISBN
  • 9781478013556
  • 1478013559
LCCN
2020054726
OCLC
1223067375
Author
Cervenak, Sarah Jane, 1975- author.
Title
Black gathering : art, ecology, ungiven life / Sarah Jane Cervenak.
Publisher
Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Copyright Date
©2021
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Black outdoors : innovations in the poetics of study
Black outdoors.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-187) and index.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Research Call Number
Sc E 21-1492
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