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7549749Animist Poeticshttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/animist-poetics-9798855803266/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7169664/image.jpg?v=638841945049930000626696MXNState University of New York PressInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>Argues that African literature conceptualizes trauma and regeneration as a more-than-human process, offering an animist revision of psychoanalysis.</strong></p><p>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, <em>Animist Poetics</em> 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 artincluding archival manuscripts by Wole Soyinka and Yvonne VeraRyan Topper argues that African literature reinvents these Indigenous ecologies in uniquely modern ways. <em>Animist Poetics</em> takes Indigenousand literaryknowledge seriously, rethinking the foundations of psychoanalysis and charting new theoretical paths in posthumanism, the environmental humanities, new materialism, biopolitics, and memory studies.</p>...7165859Animist Poetics626696https://www.gandhi.com.mx/animist-poetics-9798855803266/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7169664/image.jpg?v=638841945049930000InStockMXN99999PR_DIEbook20259798855803266_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9798855803266_<p><strong>Argues that African literature conceptualizes trauma and regeneration as a more-than-human process, offering an animist revision of psychoanalysis.</strong></p><p>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, <em>Animist Poetics</em> 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 artincluding archival manuscripts by Wole Soyinka and Yvonne VeraRyan Topper argues that African literature reinvents these Indigenous ecologies in uniquely modern ways. <em>Animist Poetics</em> takes Indigenousand literaryknowledge seriously, rethinking the foundations of psychoanalysis and charting new theoretical paths in posthumanism, the environmental humanities, new materialism, biopolitics, and memory studies.</p>...9798855803266_State University of New York Presspreventa9798855803266_9798855803266Ryan TopperInglésMéxico2025-08-01T00:00:00+00:002025-08-01T00:00:00+00:00State University of New York Press