My chapter "Uncanny Animism: Reframing the World-Gothic with Amos Tutuola" is now available in the excellent Cambridge Companion to World-Gothic Literature www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
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#ACLA2026 What if trauma is not solely a psychic wound within an individual, but a more-than-human process linking the living, the dead, and the ecosystems they inhabit?
ANIMIST POETICS rethinks trauma, regeneration, and the postcolonial condition from the ground up.
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I'm honored to talk about Animist Poetics for the African Studies Lecture Series at @uoregon.bsky.social today. Come by Gerlinger 246 at 2pm if you are interested.
Animist Poetics is now available in paperback! The code SNPS26 will get you 30% off through the @sunypress.bsky.social website.
I wrote this blogpost for @sunypress.bsky.social about the process of writing my book, Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature, which is out now. sunypress.edu/Blog/2025/An...
Thank you so much, Nicole! Can't wait to read yours, @rosecasey.bsky.social
Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature is in print! The paperback will be out in Feb. Please request that your library order a copy. 30% off with the discount code SNWF25. @sunypress.bsky.social @rcolesworthy.bsky.social
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