Streszczenie
Animist realism, introduced by Harry Garuba in his article Ben Okri: Animist Realism
and the Famished Genre is a relatively new term. Garuba links it to African literature,
while others (Ato Quayson, Graham Harvey) use it in association with a broader
spectrum of fiction. The main objective of this article is to redefine the category of
animist realism as a subgenre of magical realism with its own connecting characteristics
and its formal difference. Author of the article argues that animist realism is applicable
especially to postcolonial and indigenous literature permeated with myths and other
elements derived from traditional belief systems.