Sarah Jane Cervenak, "Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life" (Duke UP, 2021)
New Books in African American Studies
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Is There a Beginning Again?
i was thinking about this a lot reny, even before our conversation. And i wonder if un as a sort of am fix or modifier of give suggests a priorness to giving,. Like that. There's that em that the beginnings that were, for example, sanctioned by, you know, the white enlightenment philosophies of locke and common others, were actually, like, they were belated. They followed some other kind of beginning some otherkind of relationality, which we know to be true. T i Am, weren't about transactional modalities where one had another to use in ways that were non- extractive together. No, that's really great. It always precedes
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