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
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-240) and index
