1st Edition
Toward an Animist Reading of Postcolonial Trauma Literature
By Jay Rajiva
Copyright 2021
156 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book uses the conceptual framework of animism, the belief in the spiritual qualities of nonhuman matter, to analyze representations of trauma in postcolonial fiction from Nigeria and India.
Toward an Animist Reading of Postcolonial Trauma Literature initiates a conversation between contemporary trauma literatures of Nigeria and India on animism. As postcolonial nations move farther away... Read more
Introduction: animating postcolonial trauma
1. Survival’s strange shape: prophecy and materiality
2. Witnessing at the limit: creative identification through dividual relation
3. Nonsentient insurgence: perception, implication, and the disunity of locale
4. Genres, possessed: trauma literature’s coming of age
Conclusion: entangling postcolonial reading
Biography
Jay Rajiva is Associate Professor of Global Anglophone Literature at Georgia State University, USA.
