African Literature, Animism and Politics

by Caroline Rooney

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134558841
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/14/2004
Series:	Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	596 KB

About the Author

Caroline Rooney

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'