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The Productivity of Negative Emotions in Postcolonial Literature

By Donald R. Wehrs , Jean-François Vernay , Isabelle Wentworth (eds.)

Book information

Year
2024
ISBN
1032649305, 9781032649306
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
23 MB (23855452 bytes)
Series
Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
Pages
298\299
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2024-10-28 23:04:53

Description

This volume explores the possibilities and potentialities of “negative” affect in postcolonial literature and literary theory, featuring work on postcolonial studies, First Nations studies, cognitive cultural studies, cognitive historicism, reader response theory, postcolonial feminist studies, and trauma studies. The chapters of this work investigate negative affect in all its types and dimensions: analyses of the structures of feeling created by socio-political forces; assemblages and alliances produced by negative emotion; enactive interrelationships of emotion and environment; and the ethical implications of emotional response, to name a few. It seeks to rebrand “negative” emotions as productive forces which can paradoxically confer pleasure, agential power, and social progress through literary representation.

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