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Animate literacies : literature, affect, and the politics of humanism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Snaza, Nathan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Series:Thought in the act.
Subjects:
Literacy > Social aspects > United States.
Literacy > Political aspects > United States.
Humanity in literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The human(ities) in crisis
  • Beloved's dispersed pedagogy
  • Haunting, love, and attention
  • Humanizing assemblages I: What is man?
  • Slavery, the human, and dehumanization
  • Literacy, slavery, and the education of desire
  • What is literacy?
  • Humanizing assemblages II: Discipline and control
  • Bewilderment
  • Toward a literary ethology
  • What happens when I read?
  • The smell of literature
  • Pleasures of the text
  • Those changeful sites
  • Literacies against the state
  • Futures of anima-literature.