The Productivity of Negative Emotions in Postcolonial Literature

The Productivity of Negative Emotions in Postcolonial Literature
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
18 November 2024
Pages
280
ISBN
9781032649306

The Productivity of Negative Emotions in Postcolonial Literature

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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