The Productivity of Negative Emotions in Postcolonial Literature (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)

By: Donald R. Wehrs and Isabelle Wentworth

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781040255490
Related ISBNs:: 9781040255438, 9781032649306, 9781032649320
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 11/18/24
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Jean-François Vernay, Donald Wehrs and Isabelle Wentworth
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Psychology, Language Arts, Politics and Government
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Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Jean-François Vernay
Edited by:: Donald Wehrs
Edited by:: Isabelle Wentworth