Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature - Couverture souple

Topper, Ryan

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798855803273

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2026

Synopsis

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

Psychoanalytic trauma theory largely disregards African perspectives. Postcolonial criticism often filters these perspectives through a secular humanist lens. Examining how African literature uses animism to address the traumas of colonization, Animist Poetics offers a new understanding of the postcolonial condition. From an animist viewpoint, the self is not an individual but rather a regenerative process linking the living, the dead, and their ecosystems. Looking at poetry, fiction, drama, and visual art―including archival manuscripts by Wole Soyinka and Yvonne Vera―Ryan Topper argues that African literature reinvents these Indigenous ecologies in uniquely modern ways. Animist Poetics takes Indigenous―and literary―knowledge seriously, rethinking the foundations of psychoanalysis and charting new theoretical paths in posthumanism, the environmental humanities, new materialism, biopolitics, and memory studies.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ryan Topper is Associate Professor of English at Western Oregon University

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798855803273
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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