African Literature, Animism and Politics

Name: African Literature, Animism and Politics
Availability: OutOfStock
ISBN: 9780415237512

ISBN-10: 0415237513

ISBN-13: 9780415237512

Edition: 2001

Authors: Caroline Rooney

List price: $160.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Out of stock

We're sorry. This item is currently unavailable.

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

This work considers ways in which inventions of Africa differ from the Orient. It identifies debates over the status of African thought as one of the main preoccupations of a certain Africanist discourse and analyzes a literature of animism.

Book details

List price: $160.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 4/9/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Introduction



Clandestine Antigones and the Pre-Post-Colonial



Clandestine antigones



Non-belonging: the family without origin; the origin without family



Fetishism and a politics of the other



The pre-post-colonial and the Abiku



The question of a regressive hybridity



The death drive and spirit possession



Antigone and negotiation



From Hegel on Africa Towards a Reading of African Writing



Hegel on Africa



The narcissistic aesthetic



The art of the undeniable



A walk with 'A Walk in the Night'