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State University of New York Press Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature (SUNY series, Philosophy and Race)

Name: Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature (SUNY series, Philosophy and Race)
Brand: State University of New York Press

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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.

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Brand: State University of New York Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: B0DWDJMLCL
Category: Books > Subjects > Health, Family & Lifestyle > Psychology & Psychiatry > Applied Psychology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 August 2025
Listed Since: 07 February 2025

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