Animate Literacies: Literature, Affect, and the Politics of Humanism by Nathan S

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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.

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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 contact zone in which humans, nonhuman animals, and nonvital objects such as chairs and paper all become active participants. In readings of classic literature by Kate Chopin, Frederick Douglass, James Joyce, Toni Morrison, Mary Shelley, and others, Snaza emphasizes the key roles that affect and sensory experiences play in literacy. Snaza upends common conceptions of literacy and its relation to print media, showing instead how such understandings reinforce dehumanizations linked to dominant imperialist, heterosexist, and capitalist definitions of the human. The path toward disrupting such exclusionary, humanist frameworks, Snaza contends, lies in formulating alternative practices of literacy and literary study that escape disciplined knowledge production.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments  vii1. The Human(ities) In Crisis  12. Beloved's Dispersed Pedagogy  113. Haunting, Love, and Attention  194. Humanizing Assemblages I: What Is Man?  285. Slavery, the Human, and Dehumanization  386. Literacy, Slavery, and the Education of Desire  487. What Is Literacy?  558. Humanizing Assemblages II: Discipline and Control  669. Bewilderment  7710. Toward a Literary Ethology  8611. What Happens When I Read?  9912. The Smell of Literature  11513. Pleasures of the Text  12414. Those Changeful Sites  13415. Literacies against the State  14516. Futures of Anima-Literature  153Notes  165References  193Index  209

Review

"Challenging us to discover, create, and practice modes of literacy that depart from the conventional paths that have disciplined us, Nathan Snaza puts forth significant and bracing provocations about the relationship between reading and the production of Man. In his brilliant formulation, literacy is no longer exclusively human—it happens within a thick web of animating entities that affect and bewilder. An outstanding work." -- Stacy Alaimo, author of * Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times *"Offering stimulating readings of familiar literary texts, Nathan Snaza recasts literacy within a field of material objects and conditions by weaving new materialism together with postcolonial and posthumanist thought into meditations on literacies within and beyond the human." -- Carla Freccero, author of * Queer/Early/Modern *"Dovetailing feminist and queer new materialism, posthumanism, affect theory, ecocriticism, and a touch of Marx and Foucault, Animate Literacies demands a lot of its reader, though it almost always, rewards strenuous attention with its rich and energizing combination of love and critique." -- Margaret Mendenhall * Ethnic and Third World Literatures *"This book is delightfully peripatetic, crisscrossing critical fields and literary texts with acuity and grace. Pulled into these movements, we become 'reading things' that cannot but feel the very bewilderment so key to building alternate futures." -- Erica Fretwell * Studies in the Novel *"Snaza's book provides a rich ensemble of literary accounts that illustrate his expanded notion of literacy. . . . Animate Literacies is a demonstration of both the vitality and the crisis of the humanities, sitting at a point where different roads cross, as it simultaneously takes on a speculative and a critical approach to the concept of literacy." -- Ana Marques * Expanded Literacies *"[Animate Literacies] can help us to imagine our way out of the colonial structures that order academic libraries and librarianship." -- Melissa Adler * College and Research Libraries *

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"This book is delightfully peripatetic, crisscrossing critical fields and literary texts with acuity and grace. Pulled into these movements, we become 'reading things' that cannot but feel the very bewilderment so key to building alternate futures."

Details ISBN1478004797 Author Nathan Snaza Publisher Duke University Press Year 2019 ISBN-10 1478004797 ISBN-13 9781478004790 Format Paperback Imprint Duke University Press Subtitle Literature, Affect, and the Politics of Humanism Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States DEWEY 302.2244 Pages 232 Publication Date 2019-08-16 Short Title Animate Literacies Language English UK Release Date 2019-08-16 AU Release Date 2019-08-16 NZ Release Date 2019-08-16 US Release Date 2019-08-16 Edited by Kim-Chuan Toh Birth 1945 Affiliation Georgia Institute of Technology Position Kranzberg Professor Qualifications SJ Series Thought in the Act Alternative 9781478004158 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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