Title On the sacred in African literature : old gods and new worlds / Mark Mathuray

Published Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 205 pages) Contents Realising the sacred : Chinua Achebe's Arrow of god -- Dramatising the sacred : Wole Soyinka's "the fourth stage" and Kongi's harvest -- Politicising the sacred : Ngugi wa Thiong'o's The river between -- Sacred realism : Ben Okri's The famished road -- The stalled sublime : J.M. Coetzee's Foe -- Conclusion : the political as tragic effect Summary This innovative book provides an original approach to the analysis of the representation of myth, ritual, and 'magic' in African literature. Emphasizing the ambivalent nature of the sacred, it advances work on the religious dimension of canonical African texts and attends to the persistence of pre-colonial cultures in postcolonial spaces Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject African literature (English) -- History and criticism Holy, The, in literature. Myth in literature. Religion in literature. Culture in literature. Magic realism (Literature) Literature and society -- Africa -- History -- 20th century Politics and literature -- Africa -- History -- 20th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. African literature (English) Culture in literature Holy, The, in literature Literature Literature and society Magic realism (Literature) Myth in literature Politics and literature Religion in literature SUBJECT Africa -- In literature Subject Africa Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230240919 0230240917

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