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The Productivity of Negative Emotions in Postcolonial Literature

The Productivity of Negative Emotions in Postcolonial Literature

Vernay, Jean-François
Wehrs, Donald R.
Wentworth, Isabelle

Paperback

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Literary CriticismGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1032649313
ISBN13: 9781032649313
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 21 2026
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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