Tendings
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Tendings

Feminist Esoterisms and the Abolition of Man

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Tendings

Feminist Esoterisms and the Abolition of Man

About this book

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 constitute what he calls an endarkenment that embraces decolonial spiritual knowledge. Highlighting how endarkenment practices challenge universal presumptions and reject the racializing and colonialist mission of enlightenment modernity, Snaza demonstrates the ways esoterism affirms a pluriversal worldview that reimagines what it means to live in a more-than-human world.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface. In the Cards
  4. Introduction: Tending Endarkenment Esoterisms
  5. One—“What is a Witch?”: Tituba’s Subjunctive Challenge
  6. Two—Feeling Subjunctive Worlds: Reading Second-Wave Feminist and Gay Liberationist Histories of Witchcraft
  7. Three—Man’s Ruin: Hearing Divide and Dissolve
  8. Four—Ceremony: Participation and Endarkenment Study
  9. Conclusion: On Deictic Participation in/as Tending
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Notes
  12. References
  13. Index