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Tendings Nathan Snaza

Tendings By Nathan Snaza

Tendings by Nathan Snaza


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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 to highlight new ways of rejecting the colonialist and racist mission of enlightenment modernity.

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Tendings: Feminist Esoterisms and the Abolition of Man by Nathan Snaza

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 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.

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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 *

About Nathan Snaza

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? Tituba's Subjunctive Challenge 25
2. Feeling Subjunctive Worlds: Reading Second-Wave Feminist and Gay Liberationist Histories of Witchcraft 51
3. Man's 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

Additional information

NGR9781478030102
9781478030102
1478030100
Tendings: Feminist Esoterisms and the Abolition of Man by Nathan Snaza
New
Paperback
Duke University Press
2024-02-16
216
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