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Certain Africanist discourse is preoccupied by the status of African thought, where Africa has been repeatedly construed as both unthinking and unthinkable. This highly original and groundbreaking book sets itself up against this tradition in readdressing questions of animism, hybridity and fetishism, and in attending to a ‘writing Africa’: an Africa that reasserts and reinvents itself.  \nDrawing on anthropology and African philosophy, African Literature, Animism and Politics also uses readings of literary texts to interrogate conceptual suppositions that serve to eclipse the subject of Africa. Through readings of Antigone, it explores how a thinking of the family within Western philosophy and psychoanalysis serves to deny other inheritances. Caroline Rooney also reveals how the category of ‘hybridity’ is used paradoxically to discriminate between tolerable and threateningly transgressive forms of hybridity.  \nThe book marks an important contribution to colonial and postcolonial studies in its clarification of a particular Africanist discourse, and in its farreaching analyses of the literature of animism. Caroline Rooney’s analyses open up fresh lines of research such as: a rethinking of the death drive in terms of spirit possession; theorisations of creativity in terms of receptivity; formulations of a poetics of eclipsement and of a spirited empiricism; an analysis of strategies deployed in constructing hybridity; and the proposition of another politics/ethics in relation to the figure of abiku and the brother–sister ideal.  \nIt will be of great critical interest to those working in philosophy, anthropology, literary and critical theory, politics and psychoanalysis.  \nCaroline Rooney was born in Zimbabwe, and is Lecturer in English and Postcolonial Literature at the University of Kent.  \nPostcolonial Literatures  \nIn collaboration with the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at University of Kent at Canterbury  \nThis series aims to present a wide range of scholarly and innovative research into postcolonial literatures by specialists in the field. Volumes will concentrate on writers and writing originating in previously (or presently) colonised areas, andwill include material from non-anglophone as well as anglophone colonies and literatures. The series will also include collections of important essays from older journals, and re-issues of classic texts on postcolonial subjects.  \nThe series comprises two strands:  \nRoutledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures is a forum for innovative new research intended for a high-level specialist readership, and the titles will be available in hardback only. Titles include  \nMagical Realism in West African Fiction  \nBrenda Cooper  \nAusten in the World  \nPostcolonial Mappings  \nedited by You-me Park and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan  \nContemporary Caribbean Women’s Poetry  \nDenise deCaires Narain  \nAfrican Literature, Animism and Politics  \nCaroline Rooney  \nReadings in Postcolonial Literatures aims to address the needs of students and teachers, and the titles will be published in hardback and paperback. Titles include  \nSelected Essays of Wilson Harris  \nedited by Andrew Bundy  \nAfrican Literature, Animism and Politics  \nCaroline Rooney  \nLondon and New York  \nFirst published 2000  \nby Routledge  \n11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge  \n29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group  \nThis edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.© 2000 Caroline Rooney  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information st","cbCait7uNt0unh42","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCait7uNt0unh42","pdf",1082946,255,"English","# Contents\n## Acknowledgements\n## Introduction\n## 1 Clandestine Antigones and the pre-post-colonial\n## Notes\n## Index","[{\"question\":\"What central questions does the book address about animism and African writing?\",\"answer\":\"It readdresses questions of animism, hybridity, and fetishism while focusing on “writing Africa,” emphasizing how Africa reasserts and reinvents itself.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the book use readings of Antigone?\",\"answer\":\"It explores how conceptions of the family in Western philosophy and psychoanalysis can deny other inheritances, shaping how African inheritances are excluded.\"},{\"question\":\"What role does “hybridity” play in the book’s argument?\",\"answer\":\"The book shows hybridity being used paradoxically to discriminate between tolerable and threateningly transgressive forms.\"}]","African Literature, Animism and Politics | PDF",1790546008,393]