African Literature, Animism and Politics

Informationen zum Autor Caroline Rooney Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This book marks an important contribution to colonial and postcolonial studies in its clarification of a certain Africanist discourse and its far-reaching analyses of a literature of animism. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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• Authors: Caroline Rooney, Caroline (University of Kent Rooney, ROONEY CAROLINE UNIVERSITY OF KE
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.02.2001
• EAN: 9780415418553
• ISBN: 978-0-415-41855-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures; Routledge Research in Postcolo; Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)