Animate Literacies: Literature, Affect, and the Politics of Humanism

by Nathan Snaza

Book Overview

In Animate Literacies Nathan Snaza proposes a new theory of literature and literacy in which he outlines how literacy is both constitutive of the social and used as a means to define the human. Weaving new materialism with feminist, queer, and decolonial thought, Snaza theorizes literacy as a contact zone in which humans, nonhuman animals, and nonvital objects such as chairs and paper all become active participants. In readings of classic literature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478004797
• ISBN13: 9781478004790
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"