The Productivity of Negative Emotions in Postcolonial Literature

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The Productivity of Negative Emotions in Postcolonial Literature is written by Jean-François Vernay and published by Taylor & Francis. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1040255493 (ISBN 10) and 9781040255490 (ISBN 13).

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.