ABSTRACT
The book’s conclusion features a brief notional exploration of what it would mean to engage in an animist ethics of reading literature, more broadly, within communities organized around cultural lines of affiliation to postcolonial traditions, rather than to western theories of animism. Engaging with the philosophy of Isabelle Stengers and the music criticism of Nathaniel Mackey, among others, I argue for the need for an ethics of postcolonial reading informed by care, rather than by distanced critique.
