Tendings : Feminist Esoterisms and the Abolition of Man PDF
by Snaza Nathan Snaza
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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 Conde, 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.
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- Pages:216 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:22/01/2024
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- ISBN:9781478059103
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:216 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:22/01/2024
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- ISBN:9781478059103
