Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life Cervenak Sarah Jane
Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life Cervenak Sarah Jane In Black Gathering Sarah Jane Cervenak engages with Black artists and writers who create alternative spaces for Black people to gather…
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Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life Cervenak Sarah Jane
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. In their aestheticization and conceptualization of gathering, these artists investigate the relationships among art, the environment, home, and forms of Black togetherness. 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.
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