African literature, animism and politics
By: Caroline Rooney.
Series: Postcolonial literatures ;; 4; Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ;; 4.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: African literature -- History and criticism; Politics in literature; Politics and literature -- Africa; Postcolonialism in literature; Animism in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-240) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1; title: 1 Clandestine Antigones and the pre-post-colonial 31; title: Clandestine Antigones 36; title: Non-belonging: thefamily without origin; the origin withoutfamily 57; title: Fetishism and a politics of the other 75; title: The pre-post-colonial and the abiku 91; title: The question of a regressive hybridity 123; title: The death drive and spirit possession 135; title: Antigone and negotiation 149; title: 2 From Hegel on Africa towards a reading of African literature 154; title: Hegel on Africa 157; title: The narcissistic aesthetic 186; title: The art of the undeniable 204; title: A walk with A Walk in the Night' 216; title: Notes 228; title: Index 241.