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abolition
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Ann Cvetkovich
Arthur Evans
attunement
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Barbara Ehrenreich
Black feminism
Black Witch of Salem
care
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Christina Sharpe
coloniality
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decolonization
Deirdre English
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Divide and Dissolve
drone
endarkenment
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esoteric practice
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evental ontology
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Maryse Conde
new materialism
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pedagogy
perception
pluriversal gathering
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queer of color critique
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sound studies
Starhawk
subjunctive reading
tarot
the deictic
wake work
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worlding
Product details
- ISBN 9781478030102
- Weight: 318g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 16 Feb 2024
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In Tendings, 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. Analyzing writing and performances by Maryse CondÉ, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre 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.
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.
