Nathan Snaza

Tendings

Feminist Esoterisms and the Abolition of Man

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Produktbeschreibung

Nathan Snaza brings contemporary feminist and queer popular cultureâ s resurging interest in esoteric practices like tarot and witchcraft into conversation with Black feminist and new materialist thought to highlight new ways of rejecting the colonialist and racist mission of enlightenment modernity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 328g
• ISBN-13: 9781478030102
• ISBN-10: 1478030100
• Artikelnr.: 68594638

Autorenporträt

Nathan Snaza is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Richmond and author of Animate Literacies: Literature, Affect, and the Politics of Humanism, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. In the Cards  vii
Introduction. Tending Endarkenment Esoterisms  1
1. “What Is a Witch?” Tituba’s Subjunctive Challenge  25
2. Feeling Subjunctive Worlds: Reading Second-Wave Feminist and Gay
Liberationist Histories of Witchcraft  51
3. Man’s Ruin: Hearing Divide and Dissolve  81
4. Ceremony: Participation and Endarkenment Study  100
Conclusion. On Deictic Participation in/as Tending  133
Acknowledgments  143
Notes  147
References  177
Index  193