Ancestral trauma, animist poetics : African literature's regenerative death drive
In this thesis I ask, what kind of trauma theory is immanent to modern African literature? Informed by psychoanalysis and deconstruction, I explicate from African texts a form of collective trauma that I term ancestral trauma and a regenerative logic of survival that I term animist poetics. Ancestra...
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University of Leeds
2017
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.733572 |