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Animate Literacies : Literature, Affect, and the Politics of Humanism /

In Animate Literacies Nathan Snaza proposes a new theory of literature and literacy in which he outlines how literacy is both constitutive of the social and used as a means to define the human. Weaving new materialism with feminist, queer, and decolonial thought, Snaza theorizes literacy as a contac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Snaza, Nathan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The human(ities) in crisis
  • Beloved's dispersed pedagogy
  • Haunting, love, and attention
  • Humanizing assemblages I: What is man?
  • Slavery, the human, and dehumanization
  • Literacy, slavery, and the education of desire
  • What is literacy?
  • Humanizing assemblages II: Discipline and control
  • Bewilderment
  • Toward a literary ethology
  • What happens when I read?
  • The smell of literature
  • Pleasures of the text
  • Those changeful sites
  • Literacies against the state
  • Futures of anima-literature.