African literature, animism and politics
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African literature, animism and politics
（Routledge research in postcolonial literatures, 4）
Routledge, 2000
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Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [228]-240)
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book marks an important contribution to colonial and postcolonial studies in its clarification of the African discourse of consciousness and its far-reaching analyses of a literature of animism. It will be of great interest to scholars in many fields including literary and critical theory, philosophy, anthropology, politics and psychoanalysis.
Table of Contents
- Introduction Part I: Clandestine Antigones and the Pre-Post-Colonial 1. Clandestine antigones 2. Non-belonging: the family without origin
- the origin without family 3. Fetishism and a politics of the other 4. The pre-post-colonial and the Abiku 5. The question of a regressive hybridity 6. The death drive and spirit possession 7. Antigone and negotiation Part II: From Hegel on Africa Towards a Reading of African Writing 8. Hegel on Africa 9. The narcissistic aesthetic 10. The art of the undeniable 11. A walk with 'A Walk in the Night'
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