{"product_id":"animist-poetics-ancestral-trauma-and-regeneration-in-african-literature-9798855803273","title":"Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ryan Topper\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: African\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArgues that African literature conceptualizes trauma and regeneration as a more-than-human process, offering an animist revision of psychoanalysis.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePsychoanalytic 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, \u003ci\u003eAnimist Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eAnimist Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47778904834199,"sku":"9798855803273","price":3218.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798855803273.webp?v=1778031982","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/animist-poetics-ancestral-trauma-and-regeneration-in-african-literature-9798855803273","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}