Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature
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Book Overview Argues that African literature conceptualizes trauma and regeneration as a more-than-human process, offering an animist revision of psych...
Argues that African literature conceptualizes trauma and regeneration as a more-than-human process, offering an animist revision of psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalytic trauma theory largely disregards African perspectives. Postcolonial criticism often filters these perspectives through a secular humanist lens. Examining how African literature uses animism to address the traumas of colonization, Animist Poetics offers a new understanding of the postcolonial condition. From an animist viewpoint, the self is not an individual but rather a regenerative process linking the living, the dead, and their ecosystems. Looking at poetry, fiction, drama, and visual art-including archival manuscripts by Wole Soyinka and Yvonne Vera-Ryan Topper argues that African literature reinvents these Indigenous ecologies in uniquely modern ways. Animist Poetics takes Indigenous-and literary-knowledge seriously, rethinking the foundations of psychoanalysis and charting new theoretical paths in posthumanism, the environmental humanities, new materialism, biopolitics, and memory studies.
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Publisher: ST UNIV OF NEW YORK PR | ISBN: 9798855803
FormatHardcover
ISBN9798855803
EAN9798855803259
PublisherST UNIV OF NEW YORK PR
Publication Date2025-08-01
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight1.25 Pounds
Length9.0 Inches
Width6.0 Inches
Height0.81 Inches
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