Caroline Rooney

African Literature, Animism and Politics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780415418553
• ISBN-10: 0415418550
• Artikelnr.: 26675305

Autorenporträt

Caroline Rooney

Inhaltsangabe

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'