Animist Poetics - Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature

"Argues that African literature conceptualizes trauma and regeneration as a more-than-human process, offering an animist revision of psychoanalysis"--

About the author

Ryan Topper is Associate Professor of English at Western Oregon University

Product details

• Authors: Ryan Topper
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.08.2025
• EAN: 9798855803259
• ISBN: 979-8-8558-0325-9
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 544 g
• Series: SUNY series, Philosophy and Race
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism, Literary studies: from c 2000, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis