Title Tendings : feminist esoterisms and the abolition of man / Nathan Snaza

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2024

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 197 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction: Tending endarkenment esoterisms -- "What is a witch?" : Tituba's subjunctive challenge -- Feeling subjunctive worlds : reading second-wave feminist and gay liberationist histories of witchcraft -- Man's ruin : hearing divide and dissolve -- Ceremony : participation and endarkenment study -- Conclusion: On deictic participation in/as tending Summary "Taking off from the visibility of esoteric practices like tarot and witchcraft in contemporary feminist and queer popular culture, Tendings puts the resurgence of queer and feminist interest in the occult into conversation with theoretical developments from Black and new materialist feminisms. Nathan Snaza considers the ways that both these intellectual fields as well as feminist esoterisms are similarly concerned with attunement to the more-than-human world and explores how these concerns express themselves differently--and how they might be brought, and thought, together. In opposition to enlightenment rationalities that continue to dominate academic knowledge production (even in fields committed to anti-oppressive thinking), what Snaza calls endarkenment thinking draws on the work of Sylvia Wynter, Maryse Condé, Christina Sharpe, Alexis Pauline Gumbs and others to attend to ways of knowing and being that don't attempt to affirm or accept the racializing, colonialist mission of Enlightenment modernity"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject Feminist spirituality. Feminist theory. Feminism and science. Feminism and literature. Queer theory. Postcolonialism. Black people -- Study and teaching. Occultism -- Social aspects postcolonialism. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory Black people -- Study and teaching. Feminism and literature. Feminism and science. Feminist spirituality. Feminist theory. Occultism -- Social aspects. Postcolonialism. Queer theory. Form Electronic book LC no. 2023036594 ISBN 1478059109 9781478059103

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