Black gathering : art, ecology, ungiven life /

Black gathering : art, ecology, ungiven life /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Cervenak, Sarah Jane, 1975- author.
Imprint:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2021. ©2021
Description:	xi, 194 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Black outdoors : innovations in the poetics of study Black outdoors.
Subject:	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 aesthetics. African American art. African American artists. African American women artists. African American women authors. American literature. American literature -- African American authors. Ecocriticism. Womanism. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12626911

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ISBN:	9781478013556 1478013559 9781478014478 1478014474 9781478021773
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--
Other form:	Online version: Cervenak, Sarah Jane, 1975- Black gathering. Durham : Duke University Press, 2021. 9781478021773

Table of 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.