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.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Black outdoors : innovations in the poetics of study
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