The Productivity of Negative Emotions in Postcolonial Literature
Jean-François Vernay editor Donald R Wehrs editor Isabelle Wentworth editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:18th Nov '24
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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.
"The Productivity of Negative Emotions in Postcolonial Literature promises to stand out among emotion studies for its simultaneous respect for scientific research and socio-historical context. Taking diverse approaches to emotions labeled “negative,” its scholars engage the latest cognitive, philosophical, and historical studies of emotions without giving any one field the final word."
- Laura Otis, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of English Emerita, Emory University, USA
“This collection draws a fascinating affective map of the postcolonial condition through a range of emotional conflicts articulated in literature that stretches across modernity all the way to our globalized and digitized present. Given the historical realities of power and oppression, this collection on the negative is a richly productive step both along the planetary terrain of postcolonial literary study and the restless archive of critical theory.”
-Saikat MajumdarProfessor of English and Creative Writing, Ashoka University, India
ISBN: 9781032649306
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 453g
280 pages