[Introduction to] Tendings

Authors

Nathan Snaza, University of RichmondFollow

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Description

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 Condé, 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.

ISBN

978-1-4780-2584-9

Publication Date

2-2024

Publisher

Duke University Press

City

Durham

DOI

10.1215/9781478059103

Keywords

Postcolonial and Colonial Studies, Theory and Philosophy, Affect Theory, Gender and Sexuality, Feminism and Women’s Studies

School

School of Arts and Sciences

Department

English

Disciplines

English Language and Literature | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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Recommended Citation

Snaza, Nathan. Tendings : Feminist Esoterisms and the Abolition of Man / Nathan Snaza. Duke University Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478059103