{"product_id":"animist-poetics-ancestral-trauma-and-re","title":"Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma And Re","description":"\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":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57305323503998,"sku":"NW9798855803259","price":84.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9798855803259.jpg?v=1778554397","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/animist-poetics-ancestral-trauma-and-re","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}