Rooney African Literature, Animism and Politics

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-134-55884-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rooney, Caroline

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

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'