Animate Literacies
Literature, Affect, and the Politics of Humanism
1st Edition
Published on 16. August 2019
240 pages
978-1-4780-0562-9 (ISBN)
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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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Nathan Snaza teaches English literature, gender studies, and educational foundations at the University of Richmond.
Content
Acknowledgments vii
1. The Human(ities) In Crisis 1
2. Beloved's Dispersed Pedagogy 11
3. Haunting, Love, and Attention 19
4. Humanizing Assemblages I: What Is Man? 28
5. Slavery, the Human, and Dehumanization 38
6. Literacy, Slavery, and the Education of Desire 48
7. What Is Literacy? 55
8. Humanizing Assemblages II: Discipline and Control 66
9. Bewilderment 77
10. Toward a Literary Ethology 86
11. What Happens When I Read? 99
12. The Smell of Literature 115
13. Pleasures of the Text 124
14. Those Changeful Sites 134
15. Literacies against the State 145
16. Futures of Anima-Literature 153
Notes 165
References 193
Index 209
1. The Human(ities) In Crisis 1
2. Beloved's Dispersed Pedagogy 11
3. Haunting, Love, and Attention 19
4. Humanizing Assemblages I: What Is Man? 28
5. Slavery, the Human, and Dehumanization 38
6. Literacy, Slavery, and the Education of Desire 48
7. What Is Literacy? 55
8. Humanizing Assemblages II: Discipline and Control 66
9. Bewilderment 77
10. Toward a Literary Ethology 86
11. What Happens When I Read? 99
12. The Smell of Literature 115
13. Pleasures of the Text 124
14. Those Changeful Sites 134
15. Literacies against the State 145
16. Futures of Anima-Literature 153
Notes 165
References 193
Index 209
