Explorations in Animist Materialism: Notes on Reading/Writing African Literature, Culture, and Society

Abstract

Harry Garuba teaches at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town. His recent publications include “Negotiating the(Post)Colonial Impasse: Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel and Derek Walcott's Ti-Jean and His Brothers” (English Academy Review, December 1999), “The Island Writes Back: Discourse/Power and Marginality in Wole Soyinka's The Swamp Dwellers, Derek Walcott'sThe Sea at Dauphin, and Athol Fugard's The Island”(Research in African Literatures, winter 2001), and “Mapping the Land/Body/Subject: Colo- nial and Postcolonial Geographies in African Narrative” (Alternation, 2002).