Toward an animist reading of postcolonial trauma literature : reading beyond the single subject / Jay Rajiva.

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...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author:	Rajiva, Jay (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Series:	Routledge contemporary Africa series.
Subjects:	Postcolonialism in literature. Psychic trauma in literature. Animism in literature. Nigerian fiction (English) > History and criticism. Indic fiction (English) > History and criticism. Indic fiction (English) Nigerian fiction (English) Criticism, interpretation, etc.