Snaza Animate Literacies

Literature, Affect, and the Politics of Humanism
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0562-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Reihe: Thought in the Act

Nathan Snaza proposes a new theory of literature and literacy in which he outlines how literacy operates at the interface of humans, nonhuman animals, and objects and has been used as a means to define the human in ways that marginalize others.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Snaza, Nathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
1. The Human(ities) In Crisis 1
2. Beloved's Dispersed Pedagogy 11
3. Haunting, Love, and Attention 19
4. Humanizing Assemblages I: What Is Man? 28
5. Slavery, the Human, and Dehumanization 38
6. Literacy, Slavery, and the Education of Desire 48
7. What Is Literacy? 55
8. Humanizing Assemblages II: Discipline and Control 66
9. Bewilderment 77
10. Toward a Literary Ethology 86
11. What Happens When I Read? 99
12. The Smell of Literature 115
13. Pleasures of the Text 124
14. Those Changeful Sites 134
15. Literacies against the State 145
16. Futures of Anima-Literature 153
Notes 165
References 193
Index 209

Über Autor(innen)

Nathan Snaza teaches English literature, gender studies, and educational foundations at the University of Richmond.