Tendings

Feminist Esoterisms and the Abolition of Man

AvNathan Snaza

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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In Tendings, Nathan Snaza brings contemporary feminist and queer popular culture’s resurging interest in esoteric practices like tarot and witchcraft into conversation with Black feminist and new materialist thought. Analyzing writing and performances by Maryse CondÉ, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, Starhawk, Christina Sharpe, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and others, Snaza introduces his theory of tending as a concept that links ontology, attunement, care, and anticipatory action to explore how worlds persist through everyday acts of participation. In contrast to the universalizing presuppositions of the enlightenment, Snaza shows how certain feminist occult and esoteric practices constitute what he calls an endarkenment that embraces decolonial spiritual knowledge. Highlighting how endarkenment practices challenge universal presumptions and reject the racializing and colonialist mission of enlightenment modernity, Snaza demonstrates the ways esoterism affirms a pluriversal worldview that reimagines what it means to live in a more-than-human world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-02-16
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:318 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Duke University Press
ISBN:9781478030102

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Ande, kropp och själ inom Ande, kropp och själ
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

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.

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“Grappling with the troubling investments of feminist and queer esoterisms in colonialist grammars of enlightenment, Snaza moves us far beyond mere critique of such investments. Tendings beautifully makes the case for the radical importance of transformative, anti-enlightenment ritual in the making of a pluriverse where more-than-human flourishing is possible.” - Hil Malatino, author of (Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad) “I think of this book as a highly discursive spell, a call across generations to show up for our Wynterian, AnzaldÚan, Lordean assignment, to show up in and as the worlds enlightenment says we were never supposed to imagine.” - Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of (Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde)

Innehållsförteckning

Preface. In the Cards viiIntroduction. Tending Endarkenment Esoterisms 11. “What Is a Witch?” Tituba’s Subjunctive Challenge 252. Feeling Subjunctive Worlds: Reading Second-Wave Feminist and Gay Liberationist Histories of Witchcraft 513. Man’s Ruin: Hearing Divide and Dissolve 814. Ceremony: Participation and Endarkenment Study 100Conclusion. On Deictic Participation in/as Tending 133Acknowledgments 143Notes 147References 177Index 193