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Author Rooney, Caroline.

Title African literature, animism and politics / Caroline Rooney
Published London ; New York : Routledge, [2000]
©2000

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Description viii, 246 pages ; 24 cm
Series Postcolonial literatures ; 4
Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 4
Contents Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 --1 Clandestine Antigones and the pre-post-colonial 31 -- Clandestine Antigones 36 -- Non-belonging: thefamily without origin; the origin withoutfamily 57 -- Fetishism and a politics of the other 75 -- The pre-post-colonial and the abiku 91 -- The question of a regressive hybridity 123 -- The death drive and spirit possession 135 -- Antigone and negotiation 149 --2 From Hegel on Africa towards a reading of African literature 154 -- Hegel on Africa 157 -- The narcissistic aesthetic 186 -- The art of the undeniable 204 -- A walk with A Walk in the Night' 216 --Notes 228 -- Index 241
Summary "African Literature, Animism and Politics considers the ways in which the inventions of Africa differ from inventions of the Orient. Certain Africanist discourse is preoccupied by the status of African thought, where Africa has been repeatedly construed as both unthinking and unthinkable. This highly original and groundbreaking book sets itself up against this tradition in readdressing questions of animism, hybridity and fetishism, in attending to a 'writing Africa': an Africa that reasserts and reinvents itself. The book marks in important contribution to colonial and postcolonial studies in its clarification of a particular Africanist discourse, and in its far-reaching analyses of the literature of animism. It will be of great critical interest to those working in philosophy, anthropology, literary and critical theory, politics and psychoanalysis."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [228]-240) and index
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Subject African literature -- History and criticism.
Animism in literature.
Politics and literature -- Africa.
Politics in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
LC no. 00062741
ISBN 0415237513 (alk. paper)