- Description
- xii, 197 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Taking off from the visibility of esoteric practices like tarot and witchcraft in contemporary feminist and queer popular culture, Tendings puts the resurgence of queer and feminist interest in the occult into conversation with theoretical developments from Black and new materialist feminisms. Nathan Snaza considers the ways that both these intellectual fields as well as feminist esoterisms are similarly concerned with attunement to the more-than-human world and explores how these concerns express themselves differently--and how they might be brought, and thought, together. In opposition to enlightenment rationalities that continue to dominate academic knowledge production (even in fields committed to anti-oppressive thinking), what Snaza calls endarkenment thinking draws on the work of Sylvia Wynter, Maryse Condé, Christina Sharpe, Alexis Pauline Gumbs and others to attend to ways of knowing and being that don't attempt to affirm or accept the racializing, colonialist mission of Enlightenment modernity"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Tending endarkenment esoterisms -- "What is a witch?" : Tituba's subjunctive challenge -- Feeling subjunctive worlds : reading second-wave feminist and gay liberationist histories of witchcraft -- Man's ruin : hearing divide and dissolve -- Ceremony : participation and endarkenment study -- Conclusion: On deictic participation in/as tending.
- ISBN
- 9781478030102
- 1478030100
- 9781478025849
- 1478025840
- 9781478059103 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023036593
- OCLC
- YBP 2023036593
- Author
Snaza, Nathan, author.
- Title
Tendings : feminist esoterisms and the abolition of man / Nathan Snaza.
- Publisher
Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
Online version: Snaza, Nathan. Tendings. Durham : Duke University Press, 2024 9781478059103 (DLC) 2023036594