Nathan Snaza teaches English literature, gender studies, and educational foundations at the University of Richmond.

Acknowledgments  vii
1. The Human(ities) In Crisis  1
2. Beloved's Dispersed Pedagogy  11
3. Haunting, Love, and Attention  19
4. Humanizing Assemblages I: What Is Man?  28
5. Slavery, the Human, and Dehumanization  38
6. Literacy, Slavery, and the Education of Desire  48
7. What Is Literacy?  55
8. Humanizing Assemblages II: Discipline and Control  66
9. Bewilderment  77
10. Toward a Literary Ethology  86
11. What Happens When I Read?  99
12. The Smell of Literature  115
13. Pleasures of the Text  124
14. Those Changeful Sites  134
15. Literacies against the State  145
16. Futures of Anima-Literature  153
Notes  165
References  193
Index  209

Nathan Snaza teaches English literature, gender studies, and educational foundations at the University of Richmond.