{"product_id":"animate-literacies-9781478004158","title":"Animate Literacies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNathan Snaza proposes a new theory of literature and literacy in which he outlines how literacy operates at the interface of humans, nonhuman animals, and objects and has been used as a means to define the human in ways that marginalize others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Challenging us to discover, create, and practice modes of literacy that depart from the conventional paths that have disciplined us, Nathan Snaza puts forth significant and bracing provocations about the relationship between reading and the production of Man. In his brilliant formulation, literacy is no longer exclusively human—it happens within a thick web of animating entities that affect and bewilder. An outstanding work.” -- Stacy Alaimo, author of * Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times *\u003cbr\u003e“Offering stimulating readings of familiar literary texts, Nathan Snaza recasts literacy within a field of material objects and conditions by weaving new materialism together with postcolonial and posthumanist thought into meditations on literacies within and beyond the human.” -- Carla Freccero, author of * Queer\/Early\/Modern *\u003cbr\u003e\"Dovetailing feminist and queer new materialism, posthumanism, affect theory, ecocriticism, and a touch of Marx and Foucault, \u003ci\u003eAnimate Literacies\u003c\/i\u003e demands a lot of its reader, though it almost always, rewards strenuous attention with its rich and energizing combination of love and critique.\" -- Margaret Mendenhall * Ethnic and Third World Literatures *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book is delightfully peripatetic, crisscrossing critical fields and literary texts with acuity and grace. Pulled into these movements, we become 'reading things' that cannot but feel the very bewilderment so key to building alternate futures.”\u003c\/p\u003e -- Erica Fretwell * Studies in the Novel *\u003cbr\u003e\"Snaza’s book provides a rich ensemble of literary accounts that illustrate his expanded notion of literacy. . . . \u003ci\u003eAnimate Literacies\u003c\/i\u003e is a demonstration of both the vitality and the crisis of the humanities, sitting at a point where different roads cross, as it simultaneously takes on a speculative and a critical approach to the concept of literacy.\" -- Ana Marques * Expanded Literacies *\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eAnimate Literacies\u003c\/i\u003e] can help us to imagine our way out of the colonial structures that order academic libraries and librarianship.\" -- Melissa Adler * College and Research Libraries *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Human(ities) In Crisis  1\u003cbr\u003e 2. \u003ci\u003eBeloved\u003c\/i\u003e's Dispersed Pedagogy  11\u003cbr\u003e 3. Haunting, Love, and Attention  19\u003cbr\u003e 4. Humanizing Assemblages I: What Is Man?  28\u003cbr\u003e 5. Slavery, the Human, and Dehumanization  38\u003cbr\u003e 6. Literacy, Slavery, and the Education of Desire  48\u003cbr\u003e 7. What Is Literacy?  55\u003cbr\u003e 8. Humanizing Assemblages II: Discipline and Control  66\u003cbr\u003e 9. Bewilderment  77\u003cbr\u003e 10. Toward a Literary Ethology  86\u003cbr\u003e 11. What Happens When I Read?  99\u003cbr\u003e 12. The Smell of Literature  115\u003cbr\u003e 13. Pleasures of the Text  124\u003cbr\u003e 14. Those Changeful Sites  134\u003cbr\u003e 15. Literacies against the State  145\u003cbr\u003e 16. Futures of Anima-Literature  153\u003cbr\u003e Notes  165\u003cbr\u003e References  193\u003cbr\u003e Index  209","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408975536471,"sku":"9781478004158","price":90.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478004158.jpg?v=1730504931","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/animate-literacies-9781478004158","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}