Black Gathering

Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life

Bibliographic Data

ID8097986
AuthorsSarah Jane Cervenak (corresponding author)
Year2021
Publication date2021-09-17
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueBlack Gathering (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/9781478021773
OpenAlexW3194255876
Open LibraryOL34987382M
ISBN9781478021773
LanguageEN
Citations received6

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

Biology · Geography · Geographies of human-animal interactions · African American aesthetics · African American art · African American artists · African American authors · African American women artists · African American women authors · American literature · Ecocriticism · History and criticism · Womanism · Ecology