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Animist realism in indigenous novels and other literature
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Description | Contradiction riddles the phrases “indigenous novels” and “animist realism”. Often, routinely and casually, indigeneity is glossed as orality and traditionalism. Indigenous religions (when this contested phrase is permitted) are said to be oral, or when they do manifest in textual form they are considered degenerate. They are almost always set over against or, rather, hierarchically beneath the literate religions eulogized as “world religions”. Locality and illiteracy are attributed to them. Indigenous cultures attract most interest when they are (supposedly) traditional, pure, unalloyed, without infl uence from other religions. The very notion that they might have infl uence or impact is negated by polemical words like “syncretism” (as if hybridity were a peculiarity rather than a norm). They are expected to be primitive or, at best, primal. They are not desirable when modern(ized). Conversely, novels and novel writing are modern. They (the things and the acts) privilege the subjectivity of individual interiority or the individuality of interior subjectivity … They are rewarded most when written and read in European languages, especially those languages that promise success in attracting global readerships rather than local ones. Even romantically rural novels seem aimed at cosmopolitan urban strangers, not at local, indigenous, intimate kin. Book Name: The Handbook of Contemporary Animism |
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| Ending Page | 475 |
| Page Count | 14 |
| Starting Page | 462 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315728964-55 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2014-09-11 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: The Handbook of Contemporary Animism Cultural Studies Indigenous Religions Animist Languages Phrase Individual Interiority Novels |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
