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Animist Poetics

By Ryan Topper

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Animist Poetics

By Ryan Topper

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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.
Product details
Number of Pages:
298
Release Date:
2025-08-01
Publication Date:
2025-08-01
Publisher:
SUNY Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN13:
9798855803259
Weight:
637 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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