African Literature, Animism and Politics
This book marks an important contribution to colonial and postcolonial studies in its clarification of the African discourse of consciousness and its far-reaching analyses of a literature of animism. It will be of great interest to scholars in many fields including literary and critical theory, philosophy, anthropology, politics and psychoanalysis.
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This book considers ways in which inventions of Africa differ from inventions of the Orient. It identifies debates over the status of African thought as constituting one of the main preoccupations of a certain Africanist discourse. Here, Africa has been repeatedly construed as both unthinking and unthinkable. This book sets itself up against this tradition in re-addressing questions of animism, hybridity, and fetishism, and in attending to a writing Africa, an Africa that invents itself.
AcknowledgementsIntroduction11Clandestine Antigones and the pre-post-colonial31Clandestine Antigones36Non-belonging: the family without origin; the origin without family57Fetishism and a politics of the other75The pre-post-colonial and the abiku91The question of a regressive hybridity123The death drive and spirit possession135Antigone and negotiation1492From Hegel on Africa towards a reading of African literature154Hegel on Africa157The narcissistic aesthetic186The art of the undeniable204A walk with 'A Walk in the Night'216Notes228Index241
