{"product_id":"animist-poetics-ryan-topper-9798855803273","title":"Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ryan Topper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798855803273\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d","brand":"Ryan Topper","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48089463652607,"sku":"9798855803273","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8e8b44eb-dd74-4b04-bbe9-63717fdf6aa2.jpg?v=1769110411","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/animist-poetics-ryan-topper-9798855803273","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}