Snaza Tendings

Feminist Esoterisms and the Abolition of Man
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-4780-5910-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten

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 to highlight new ways of rejecting the colonialist and racist mission of enlightenment modernity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Snaza, Nathan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.