Description: Tendings by Nathan Snaza Nathan Snaza brings contemporary feminist and queer popular cultures 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. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In Tendings, Nathan Snaza brings contemporary feminist and queer popular cultures resurging interest in esoteric practices like tarot and witchcraft into conversation with Black feminist and new materialist thought. Analyzing writing and performances by Maryse Conde, Barbara Ehrenreich and Dierdre 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. Author Biography 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. Table of Contents Preface. In the Cards vii Introduction. Tending Endarkenment Esoterisms 1 1. "What Is a Witch?" Titubas Subjunctive Challenge 25 2. Feeling Subjunctive Worlds: Reading Second-Wave Feminist and Gay Liberationist Histories of Witchcraft 51 3. Mans 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 Review "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 * Details ISBN1478030100 Author Nathan Snaza Pages 216 Publisher Duke University Press Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781478030102 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-02-16 Imprint Duke University Press Subtitle Feminist Esoterisms and the Abolition of Man Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Alternative 9781478025849 Illustrations 1 illustration Audience Professional & Vocational US Release Date 2024-02-16 DEWEY 305.42 ISBN-10 1478030100 UK Release Date 2024-02-16 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161870901;
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