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BL
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1007122
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b761492
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| Main Entry
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Rooney, Caroline.
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| Title & Author
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African literature, animism and politics /\ Caroline Rooney.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 2000.
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| Series Statement
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Postcolonial literatures
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (viii, 246 pages)
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| ISBN
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0203165837
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: 0203280628
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: 661040173X
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: 9780203165836
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: 9780203280621
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: 9786610401734
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0415237513
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9780415237512
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-240) and index.
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| Contents
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Clandestine Antigones and the pre-post-colonial; Clandestine Antigones; Non-belonging: the family without origin; the origin without family; Fetishism and a politics of the other; The pre-post-colonial and the abiku; The question of a regressive hybridity; The death drive and spirit possession; Antigone and negotiation; From Hegel on Africa towards a reading of African literature; Hegel on Africa; The narcissistic aesthetic; The art of the undeniable; A walk with 'A Walk in the Night'; Notes; Index.
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| Abstract
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This book marks an important contribution to colonial and postcolonial studies in its clarification of a certain Africanist discourse and its far-reaching analyses of a literature of animism.
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African literature-- History and criticism.
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Animism in literature.
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Politics and literature-- Africa.
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Politics in literature.
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African literature.
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Animism in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- General.
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Politics and literature.
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Politics in literature.
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TRAVEL-- Special Interest-- Literary.
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Africa.
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| Dewey Classification
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809/.896
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| LC Classification
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PL8010.R66 2000eb
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