African Literature, Animism and Politics

Name: African Literature, Animism and Politics
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ISBN: 9780203280621

ISBN-10: 0203280628

ISBN-13: 9780203280621

Edition: N/A

Authors: Caroline Rooney

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This book considers ways in which inventions of Africa differ from inventions of the Orient. It identifies debates over the status of African thought as constituting one of the main preoccupations of a certain Africanist discourse. Here, Africa has been repeatedly construed as both unthinking and unthinkable. This book sets itself up against this tradition in readdressing questions of animism, hybridity, and fetishism and in attending to a writing Africa, an Africa that invents itself.

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List price: $90.00
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 1/1/2000
Binding: E-Book
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'
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