Animate literacies : literature, affect, and the politics of humanism /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Snaza, Nathan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Series:Thought in the act.
Subjects:
Literacy > Social aspects > United States.
Literacy > Political aspects > United States.
Humanity in literature.
Humanité (Morale) dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
Humanity in literature
Literacy > Political aspects
Literacy > Social aspects
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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