Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: African Literature’s Animist Poetics 1
5. Chapter 1 Ancestral Trauma and the Regenerative Death Drive: Toward an Animist Revision of Psychoanalysis 31
6. Chapter 2 Animist Poetics’ Realism-Ritual Spectrum: Aminatta Forna, Delia Jarrett-Macauley, Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali, Uhuru Portia Phalafala 67
7. Chapter 3 Cosmic Personhood in the Animist Lyric: Reading Wole Soyinka’s Prison Poetry with and against New Materialism 101
8. Chapter 4 Animist Tragedy’s Biopolitical Mediation: Staging Human Sacrifice in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman 143
9. Chapter 5 Multidimensional Memory: Environmental Wounds and the Architecture of Animism in Yvonne Vera’s The Stone Virgins 183
10. Conclusion: Principles of Animist Criticism 227
11. Notes 231
12. Works Cited 257
13. Index 277